make better agi prop, the US has the most gorgeous metro system in the world. Facts dont care about your feelings. (If you dont like brutalist architecture you probably wont like it and I'm sorry)
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Ahem, have you seen the Moscow subway?
In case anyone is wondering, that's Komsomolskaya station, built in 1952. Later stations tended to not be so opulent.
Here's a new station that's just been built for ya
I think I owe you an apology. I took your initial comment as you trying to insult me, given our past interactions. Not that I wasn't giving an honest opinion on the design itself, but otherwise I would have just kept it to myself.
That's not opulent, that's just bad taste. The other one was absolutely beautiful.
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Feels a little bougie if you ask me, but to each their own.
Funny you'd say that, because even though the first plans for it date back to the Russian Empire, it was the communists under Stalin who actually built it.
Yeah. DC has some very pretty metro stations. NYC has SO MANY stops in Manhattan it was silly when visiting.
Do you mean "agitprop"?
I distinctly remember having to stop and admire the station the first time I went through there.
This metro system doesn't have enough parallel track to allow for night time operation or maintenance.
Talk about cherry picking lmao
Memes can pick few a cherries, as a treat.
There's the Oculus stattion in NYC which is ok, but I hate the building it's connected to. It's one of only a handful of nice stations though. Half of the NYC metro looks like Silent Hill.
Moscow's is nice too (and we know whom to thank for that).
why do actual communist planned economy nations have such great train stations (and aesthetics in general)
Car infrastructure is just, and I do mean this seriously, unimaginably expensive. If you do not priotize the car you have such a shitton of money left over you can just put like, chandeliers in your metro stations.
was the USSR very low on car infrastructure? I honestly don't know so I'm asking (I know they had great train stations too)
Late stage, no, not so much, earlier stages? Yeah, absolutely, especially compared to like the west
Russia (St.Petersburg)
Spain (Madrid Atocha)
The only way to truly experience the Montreal's subway is through the smell.
Today I learned of the Pyongyang Metro. Their trains are really cute!
*New York City
Other metro systems look way nicer, looking through the images on a "American subway station" search
The USA are not America
Well, if you are going to feel better I can post a picture of the subway in the Cartel of Medellin π€£π€£π€£π€£
Doesn't work with your title, mate
Oh lookie, dictatorshp propaganda.
Of all things America sucks at, the NYC subway is not the thing to attack. Fuck cars
The issue isn't the presence of a subway system, but rather the need for more funding, care and attention.
Agreed. We are lucky to have that. Also I'm pretty sure that the photos were chosen to show off the worse of the US subway system in NYC. I remember riding it once and thought it was pretty clean.
I guarantee that someone could do the same for the other subway systems if they should choose too.
Bad meme, id you want to dunk on the US find a better angle than obvious propaganda.
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North Korea, a terrible country with dictatorship, nuclear weapons and no democracy... but hey they have subway stations!
nice, but have you ever been in Baden WΓΌrttemberg?
By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the eleventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world.[18] The subway carried 1,793,073,000 riders in 2022.[6]:β2β[note 5] On October 29, 2015, more than 6.2 million people rode the subway system, establishing the highest single-day ridership since ridership was regularly monitored in 1985.[20]
The system is also one of the world's longest. Overall, the system contains 248 miles (399 km) of routes,[10] translating into 665 miles (1,070 km) of revenue track[10] and a total of 850 miles (1,370 km) including non-revenue trackage.[11] Of the system's 28 routes or "services" (which usually share track or "lines" with other services), 25 pass through Manhattan, the exceptions being the G train, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and the Rockaway Park Shuttle.
The NYC system was built a century ago and operates at an astonishing level considering its for one city and is so relatively inexpensive.
And this appears to be a shot of a closed station that appears to be lit by flashlight - my guess is someone urbexing an abandoned station. There are quite a few stations in NYC that have been closed in the past century and aren't well maintained. Some are still passed by active trains even though there's no longer a stop there.
In all of Vietnam there are currently two active metro lines, one of which is only partially complete.
I hope it improves. Many lines are under construction but all of the projects have been plagued by delays for years.
But why would you include this as an example here?
Having worked for the MTA on the subway system years back, I invite you all to remember that we built one of the very first subway systems in the world, definitely first in scale, knowing we'd make mistakes in implementation, along with a lot of successful ideas.
Everyone else learns from our mistakes, we gladly hosted the engineering team from Los Angeles and Bangkok when they wanted to share notes with us.
With almost 200miles/320km of public tracks, this is easily the most successful mass transit system internationally. "BuT gWaFiTi BaD :( "
Give it a rest, posers.
Nope, first was UK with London Underground in 1863 (has 250 miles of track now) and 5th was USA is 1897.
You forgot London Subway.
They didn't. The UK isn't cummunist enough
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This reads like a thinly veiled pro-China pro-north Korea propaganda post ngl
Couldn't care less about those countries
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