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The top 11 subway systems in the world.

The top 11 subway systems in the world.

I'd rate Paris over London, myself. Though they're both awesome.

I'd rate Paris over London, myself.

I would too, purely for usability. Every train on its own platform = so much easier to navigate as a tourist. Follow the signs, then get on the train, done.

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Speaking of which, This one's for Jesse

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I'd rate Paris over London, myself. Though they're both awesome

I prefer London but we have Paris Issues. But we were dodging slow tourists like natives the week we spent in London so I think the Tube is very user friendly.

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Oh, there was lightening. I was just leaving work when you posted this. I saw the flash of lightening and it was QUICKLY followed by the rolling thunder. Driving home there was hail. I'm so done with this. There was sun at lunch.

The Moscow subway is the most amazing fucking thing.

More than 8 million passengers daily. You go in at rush hour, and the fast moving escalators deposit you into a sea of humanity packed so tight that you could literally pick your feet up off the ground and still keep moving with the crowd. (Ask me how I know.) The trains come less than a minute apart, and the platform fills in between.

Off hours, the crowds aren't so bad, so you can take a few minutes to boggle at the architecture (and art). Even so, you almost never wait more than a couple of minutes for the train. And it costs like 9 cents!

I think Moscow was the first subway I ever road. The cars back then (1991) set my standard for cars, hell, and stations for life. Brass fittings! Elegant frosted glass interior lights! Wooden benches, richly polished! All.that.freaking.marble&granite. I'm betting they have more modern cars now, but...man, it struck 16 year old me as old world elegance. I felt underdressed!

The escalators kinda scared me.

Anyway, I've not ridden a more aesthetically pleasing subway since. Of course, the choices are only DC, Prague, Barcelona, Budapest (tank treads!) Vienna, Philly and NYC. Only the train cars that took me from Vienna to Feldkirchen im Karten (? Probably massacring the spelling-somewhere in the mountains) impressed me more with their well-preserved elegance. But that wasn't subway.

The escalators are scary as hell. Crazy fast. But the stations are so deep it's kind of cool - they'd take forever otherwise.