The Subway in Shanghai
The subway in Shanghai is clean and modern. It was obviously very new. Built in the last decade or less. The subway does resemble that of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) in Singapore.
When I was queuing at the booth, I saw a bunch of youths leaping over the barriers to avoid payment. Wow! It seems that this happens everywhere except for Singapore...
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Sounds like NYC! How can they get away with that in China? Sounds like things are freer than we hear in the news media in America.
Would they cain you for jumping the turnstyle?
Seems like a simple subway design to me; not many lines. Check out Tokyo's subway map by comparison. Also, almost no one jumps the turnstiles in NYC nowadays. In the 70s maybe, but not now, not when there's a cop in every station just itching to make arrests. In the 9 years I spent in New York, taking the subway every day, I saw people jump the turnstiles just 5 or so times. It was a very uncommon occurrence.
I lived there in 80-82 and was a turnsytle jumper. I was young then.
Heh heh -- the 80's was a different world. Manhattan got gentrified - with all the connotations that implies - by that douchebag Giuliani, and Bloomberg has carried on the trend.
Tim, things are apparently a lot more free than depicted as you have mentioned.
I think the economy is very free-wheeling.
Brian, Tokyo's subway system seems extremely complex. I may have been on it in 1986. I cannot remember.
You guys didn't carry a gun in the subway in NYC? Didn't you watch 'Death Wish', 'Death Wish 2' and 'Death Wish 3'? Hahahahaha.
Tokyo's subway is complex to the uninitiated :D
And the trains *always* arrive on schedule, barring any problems in the system. (Off by 1-2 minutes maybe 2-3% of the time only, even during peak hours).
I've never had to take a single bus, nor taxi in my 1 year in Tokyo.
Ole' Wolvie, were you able to read Japanese? Are the symbols and colours instructive in your opinion?
I have found the subway in Paris to be very intuitive despite not knowing any French.
Were you studying in Tokyo?
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