There's gotta be one guy who converted to Islam just so he could ride the subway in Mecca.
They even have a Hajj line, which is one of the busiest in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Mashaaer_Al_Mugaddassah_Metro_line
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Both London and Paris have older metro systems and theirs don't have stations that look like they came from a Silent Hill game.
Consumerism says simply discard and buy new.
Americans have spent 40 years being told repairs are bad and not worth it for everything.
Every time someone makes a point that American subway stations are badly maintained, it inevitably turns into a discusison of who they think does the damage. Spoiler alart: They think its poor black people and homeless people, and to secure public transportation in the future, those people need to be erased from existence by :thumb-cop: and his personal artillery cannon.
The US spent a decade killing 6+ million Vietnamese people and blowing up every single building in Hanoi.
Now Vietnam has a new subway system, something the US will never have ever again. The US will only get uncompleted hyperloops that only Teslas can explode in.
Absolutely incredible.
Watched a show called Upload recently. It's set in the future and some of the characters used the Buttigieg Hyperloop to get around.
You're welcome for this delightful little tidbit.
The show is demonstrating the inevitable hellish result of a neoliberal society, I don't think it's bragging about one. But I'm one one episode in so idk
Greg Daniels is the lib that recognizes all the hellish aspects of capitalism but makes them oh so quirky.
He did the office, after all.
HCMC is getting a rail metro next year too as part of an overhauled transportation network! Real happy for Vietnam.
I want to ride the Hanoi Metro all day, and stop off at places to eat.
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Goddamn look at that fucking hottie, quirked up metro car goated with the sauce. Look at those secure hand railings, it can take so many passengers. Windows so you can see it all.
I wonder where they got the rolling stock from. That train looks very similar to current Japanese metro trains.
The Hanoi lines are built with funds from all over, but the current line is constructed and funded primarily by the Chinese development bank with some money from the Japanese development bank.
The Ho Chi Minh City line is being constructed by Japan alone. All of this is part of a South East Asian development program I believe. There's cooperation between all the involved states and it doesn't seem to be a competition or anything.
Both lines have gone over time and over budget, but the Hanoi line is the first one to start carrying passengers.
