As the world continues to grow, transportation infrastructure and country-country travel are forced to rapidly improve. But what’s at the top of the game?
10.) Seoul Metropolitan Subway
Seoul’s subway system is world class. Friendly and approachable for international travelers while also maintaining a clean and useful status 24/7 for all of its riders.
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9.) Global Air Travel
With thousands of flights occurring each day, it’s amazing to think about how seamless air travel really is. Go ahead, think about it! They’re just big metal tubes with massive engines strapped to them. Sometimes hauling around 300 people across the earth at speeds of over 500 MPH. How did we get here?
There’s not much that can even come close to what air travel has done for modern civilization.
Free rides to seniors, a full honor system where tickets are rarely checked and a smart card feature where the transit payment system makes sure that you’re not being ripped off if you don’t decide to buy an unlimited ticket. Damn, I wish the New York City’s MTA cared about its riders that much.
In such a massive city like New Delhi, it comes an immense surprise that they have an extremely clean, reliable transit system that flows through the urban network like it does. Reader Towerblocks can explain further.
Efficient, clean (I mean actually clean, not just by India’s standard) and rate of construction of the system (208 km in 15 years and increasing to 364 km next year). The biggest achievement being the location of the stations and the lines which goes under some of the worlds oldest structures and remains of five kingdoms and through the congested streets of the city of poets. It’s kind of romantic to think that under the city of nawabs and poets there is a 60 kph train running. The costs of construction of metro has been one of the lowest of all time with great on time performance and immaculate trains.
When utilizing Amsterdam’s bike program, one can take free bicycles for a park-ride or make use of their own bike and explore the city. Good luck doing that in a big American city without getting struck by a taxi.
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