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Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) released it's FY2025 Urban Railway Congestion Survey during the summer of 2026. I wrote a post with some of my thoughts on the results and Japanese train crowding in general. You can read... – at Bhutan
Where will JRUrbane travel too next? Sadly it does not have a vast rail system but it's still pretty cool. – at Macau
While I was in Tibet a few weeks ago, a smattering of Chinese metros opened. Nanjing Metro Line 6 Phase 1 opened on 29 Sept 2026. Line 6 is essentially a northern extension of S1/S7 Line complex the some trains from Line S1/S7 trains thru operating....
into L6. Nanjing Metro Line 6 Phase 1 is 32km long with 19 stations. It is a fully underground city center line supporting 6 car Type B trains and is estimated to cost 290 million 2025 USD/km to build (adjusted for local costs via PPP)...
A smattering of Chinese metros opened when was in Tibet a few weeks ago. The 20km long 17 station urban crosstown Line 5 Phase I opened on 28 Sept 2026. The 15 year old Changchun Metro is now 160km long. L5 is estimated to cost 310 million 2025 USD/km to build, adjusted...
While I was in Tibet a few weeks ago, a smattering of Chinese metros opened. Qingdao Metro Line 8's south extension opened on 22 Sept 2026. The 13km long extension plunges the radial Line 8 deep into one of Qingdao's CBDs. The 10 year old Qingdao Metro is now 360km long....
With the extension Line 8, early morning and night express trains started operating however Line 8 was never designed for express/local services and has limited overtaking infrastructure so the express runs are limited prompted some online ridicule....
While I was in Tibet a few weeks ago, a smattering of Chinese metros opened. Ningbo Metro officially opened its 1st high speed metro, Line 12 on 22 Sept 2026. The line is 60km long with 10 stations and overtaking loops for EXP services. Pics by 浙B小有名气的可爱鬼. The line...
was famous for some chaos during trial opening week starting 14 Sept 2026 where rides were free and locals want to ride the "cross-sea metro" out to the beaches and mountains in Xiangshan...
While I was in Tibet a few weeks ago, a smattering of Chinese metro systems has opened. I'll start with the big one IMO. Xiamen Metro opened the first sections of Line 4 and 6 on 16 Sept 2026. Totalling almost 60km of new metro. Line 4 1st section is 33km long with 8....
Zhangzhou City. Trains are also 4 car Type B trains (expandable to 6 cars). Line 4 and Line 6 is estimated to cost 150 million and 280 million 2025 USD/km to construct respectively....
C'est vrai! China essentially just copied the more adaptable European elevator standards instead of the overbuilt, clunky and hard to maintain N American elevator standards and applied them across the country. – at Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Ce que le Québec, le leader au Canada des « walk-up apartments », peut apprendre de la Chine : à Guangzhou, beaucoup de vieux bâtiments multi-résidentiels n'avaient pas d'ascenseurs. Or, après l'harmonisation en 1995 entre les normes EN 81 et GB 7588-1995, respectivement la norme européenne et chinoise sur les ascenseurs, il s'est construit de plus en plus d'ascenseurs extérieurs sur des vieux bâtiments multi-résidentiels. xitter.cf/JRUrbaneNetwork/status…
It is almost like having a country with almost no passenger rail transport is a bad idea. – at Wan Chai District, Hong Kong
BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters.
Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards.
And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.