While I was researching Straphanger, I was pretty sure that, if any place could claim the title to having the world’s best transit, it was going to be an Asian nation. China, for example—in terms of track mileage, the Shanghai metro is the world’s largest system under a single management, and it’s all been built since the early 90s. Or the Tokyo region,…
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