I’ve talked to several people who visited Shanghai in the early 1990s, and then returned after 2000 to find the city almost completely unrecognizable. Well, that’s going to happen again at least once during the next 10-20 years.
Shanghai currently has one of the best subway systems in mainland China (second maybe to Guangzhou). There are four lines, and its really typical to use it conveniently every single day. But, before the end of the year, three more lines will open. And the same thing will happen next December. This means that about 13 months from now, the subway system will go from four lines to TEN lines.
Hard to imagine when you come from a city like Seattle, that is much more ‘developed’ but is still working on Line One.
Shanghai currently has one of the best subway systems in mainland China (second maybe to Guangzhou). There are four lines, and its really typical to use it conveniently every single day. But, before the end of the year, three more lines will open. And the same thing will happen next December. This means that about 13 months from now, the subway system will go from four lines to TEN lines.
Hard to imagine when you come from a city like Seattle, that is much more ‘developed’ but is still working on Line One.
1 comment:
Well, actually it's easy to imagine. One of the factors is that democracy costs the efficiency of policy making to some extent.
(I’m not going on.)
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