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Subways of The World

Posted 16 Jun, 2005 at 12:19 by blue in /World | Permanent link

Here is a little something kind of neat. It's a collection of to-scale drawings of the world's subways systems. Obviously a little out of date as Toronto doesn't have the Sheppard line on it, but interesting none the less.

Though Toronto's system is much simpler than many... it's also upon reflection one of the largest across... leading one to ponder about the urban sprawl that would force the development of the system like that instead of some of the other larger cities.

Any interesting observations?

Comments (2 comments so far)
Not sure quite what you're talking about here... Toronto's is larger than a lot of the European ones there, because in general European cities tend to be rather more compact. (Having had city walls might do that to you.) Compare it with the Bay Area one, though, or the Chicago El, or even the MARTA. As North American systems go, the TTC's pretty small.
Posted 2005/6/16 12:28:00 by Matt
They look a little bit like spiders...
Posted 2005/6/18 08:42:06 by wendy
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