God bless the imperial system and bald eagles 🦅🦅🦅🦅 (oil too)

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]: 2 [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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway#:~:text=By%20annual%20ridership%2C%20the%20New,carried%201%2C793%2C073%2C000%20riders%20in%202022.

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.

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.
- I remember riding it once and thought it was pretty clean.
  The smell takes some getting used to but that's kind of Manhattan in general

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)

Ahem, have you seen the Moscow subway?
- Feels a little bougie if you ask me, but to each their own.
- In case anyone is wondering, that's Komsomolskaya station, built in 1952. Later stations tended to not be so opulent.
Yeah. DC has some very pretty metro stations. NYC has SO MANY stops in Manhattan it was silly when visiting.
Do you mean "agitprop"?
This metro system doesn't have enough parallel track to allow for night time operation or maintenance.
I distinctly remember having to stop and admire the station the first time I went through there.
the Vienna metro (u bahn) is neat because it has a very wide range of architectural styles

I love propaganda I love propaganda I love propaganda I love propaganda

I summon Nazi propaganda!
- Auschwitz had a swimming pool, detainee run theater, and the detainees often played soccer matches. Curious features of a "death camp."

Talk about cherry picking lmao

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?

But why would you include this as an example here?
What do those three countries have in common? ::: spoiler spoiler OP is a tankie. :::
Tbf Vietnam has a hard time building lines given all the unexploded ordinance that the US left

You forgot London Subway.

They didn't. The UK isn't cummunist enough
- ... ? Cummunist? It is some kind of fetish?
Mind the gap
- Omg I even dreamed that after hearing this non stop on the class vacation. It follows you through the day and dream.

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.
https://www.oldest.org/geography/subway-systems/
- Hi friend, please reread and note the caveat, "one of the very first", which position number 5 certainly includes.
  Also, a bit childish to want to rank systems based on creation date. If you feel like "losing", please read on:
  NYC total system length is about 800 miles (1.1km)
  yearly ridership: 1.8bn rides
  If we count the el's (elevated rapid transit, which is still running), first ride was in iirc 1868.
  But look, the important thing is that both our countries (presuming you live in the UK) have nice mass transit systems to keep cars off the roads. I look forward to visiting your country and riding its underground system at some point.
- Parent said "one of," not "the very first." Wikipedia has US with 4 out of the first 10 metro stations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems
  Interesting to note is that some (all?) of those early metro systems are arguably more successful than the subsequent US systems.
One could make a similar post of a clean American city and European cities with graffiti everywhere.
Most all major cities have graffiti. I will say that I’m pretty surprised at the number of EU cities that have massive graffiti everywhere. The US has issues, but a lot of larger graffiti is limited to poorer, less-traveled or more inaccessible areas. EU? Huge graffiti right across shop fronts roll-down shutters on the Main Street. Surprising.
- France is a shit hole compared to most US cities, and I'm VERY well traveled. Spain? Absolutely the opposite. Cleanest cities I've ever seen and some of the nicest architecture too.
  This crap isn't a monolith, and the US has plenty of good mass transportation systems.

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 🤣🤣🤣🤣
- Doesn't work with your title, mate

Honestly, I care less about how a subway station looks than how the system itself works and its coverage. Unfortunately the US has neither. If we want to fix one thing, its function and coverage, not aesthetic.

I'm with OP on the being had in the first half. Though I'd add, with a little bit of added effort, you can fix both. The fact that the US can do neither is, in my book, a failure of policy.

Oh lookie, dictatorshp propaganda.

NYC subway rats will fuck you up, I joke. City subways are actually decent, maybe not the best, but they get by.

NYC subway isn't that bad, yeah it's not mind blowing but it works and when you need to commute that's all that matters

I would contest that it is mind-blowing.
I may be biased since I live in the city, but being able to get damn near anywhere (that's not Staten Island, but fuck Staten Island) for the price of a bag of chips is pretty cool.
- That's what I meant, you won't find grand architecture or fancy stations but you can get anywhere (I also live in the city)

Russia (St.Petersburg)

Spain (Madrid Atocha)

India
- They also use the Imperial system, because of the British occupation in the past.

The underground stations in Prague are great as well!

Hold tight! That trickle down money is on the next train!

Kinda feels like you could make a 4 picture graph from each country with varying levels of grime.

Except NK, they probably only have the one spotless one.

*New York City

Other metro systems look way nicer, looking through the images on a "American subway station" search

This reads like a thinly veiled pro-China pro-north Korea propaganda post ngl

Couldn't care less about those countries

The only way to truly experience the Montreal's subway is through the smell.

Easy to have high speed rail when a dictator makes all the decisions and doesn't have to worry about political opposition or profitability. (Talking about China in case it wasn't obvious.)

edit: Yes, the U.S. need to improve its infrastructure. But don't compare us to the likes of China since their form of government gives them an advantage when it comes to large government-backed projects.

Yes, but... London has great underground network qnd service as well without the dictatorship. France too. Stockholm as well. Sorry, your argument is based on one data point only.
- I'm not even sure you know what my argument is. I haven't articulated a full point so I think there's some filling in the gaps going on. But what I wrote up above (without people reading into it) is factual.
- Here's another point for ya; age.
  London (it's geographical location)has been a living space and communal hub since 43CE, maybe if we give America a thousand years or so they will also build public transportation.
Hey now! That's not fair.
North Korea and Vietnam have dictators, too.

North Korea has a subway system?

Do you see a subway on that picture?
You can't have failing infrastructure if you don't have infrastructure 👨🏾‍⚕️
- How would it be physically possible to see a whole subway from that one photo
  Ngl this is lazy orientalism. You can easily look up whether Pyongyang has a subway system and find photos taken by Westerners of their subway system
It's so easy for the propagandists to convince western racists that DPRK is backwards and underdeveloped. https://www.north-korea-travel.com/pyongyang-metro.html
- It's so easy for the propagandists to convince western racists that DPRK is backwards and underdeveloped.
  This you?
  https://lemmy.ml/comment/7111152
Yes, and other forms of transportation available.

North Korea, a terrible country with dictatorship, nuclear weapons and no democracy... but hey they have subway stations!

That's the point of the image. Even NK figured out train stations. I'm not even sure if that's true, just pointing out what OP meant with the image.

Where are the sandwiches?

nice, but have you ever been in Baden Württemberg?