Memories and the Metro

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  10.09.08 | 4:43 PM ET

Several well-known writers and reporters describe the most memorable subway systems they’ve encountered on their travels—and how each one represents the city it serves.

Geoffrey York, the Globe and Mail’s China correspondent, picked Beijing’s newly expanded system: “It is crowded, of course. But the disorderly hordes are slowly yielding to the influence of the government’s etiquette campaigns. And the democratic mix of passengers, a cosmopolitan mélange of white-collar yuppies and working-class migrants, is a glimpse into China’s new society in all its diversity, energy and ambition.”

Photo by poeloq via Flickr (Creative Commons)

Tags: Train Travel, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Memories and the Metro

Marilyn Terrell 10.10.08 | 7:38 AM ET

I loved Taipei’s MRT: colorful, fast, efficient and squeaky-clean.  Here’s a nice photoset I found on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64316398@N00/1601365669/in/set-72157601322396324/

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