• yeather@lemmy.ca
    2·
    10 months ago

    Bad meme, id you want to dunk on the US find a better angle than obvious propaganda.

    • ieightpi@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlM
      1·
      10 months ago

      The issue isn’t the presence of a subway system, but rather the need for more funding, care and attention.

  • whenigrowup356@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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?

  • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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 annual ridership%2C the New,carried 1%2C793%2C073%2C000 riders in 2022.

    • Enk1@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Brad Pitt @lemmus.orgOPEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      Well, if you are going to feel better I can post a picture of the subway in the Cartel of Medellin 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • Grayox@lemmy.ml
    0·
    10 months ago

    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)

  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
    0·
    10 months ago

    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.