It's the last week of December, so time for Chinese cities to open the new subway lines that were promised to open in 2017. (If only the US could do this amount of subway construction!)
Yonah Freemark @yfreemark
28 Dec 2017
Guangzhou today: 🚇 Opened 3 new metro lines + 1 line extension. 🚉 50 miles of new lines. 🚃 Metro already serves >7 million riders/day, 5th highest in the world. 🚞 It has now passed New York in metro system mileage. xinhuanet.com/english/2017-1… thatsmags.com/guangzhou/post…

Dec 28, 2017 · 8:25 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
From what I know from reading "The Power Broker", feats like this were indeed possible in the Robert Moses era. The price paid was huge corruption and citizen rights violations.
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I don't think locals should have the power to obstruct progress the way they do in the operations of many local governments. Many call that "rights", and I don't agree. But it would be great to fix the historical inequity of placing the burden on the poor and non-white.