Category Archives: Transportation

There are only a tiny number of fully developed circumferential metro lines in the world, that is, circular or ring lines that intersect with several radial lines and that therefore enormously increase potential interconnections. Curiously, many of these lines were … Continue reading →

I visited Lima’s Metro last week. It’s a very distinctive system, for a number of reasons.1 [1] Lima’s Metro does not really go downtown, and it doesn’t come very close to Lima’s newer quasi-CBD in and around Miraflores and San Isidro … Continue reading →

The São Paulo metropolitan area is by most measures the largest or second largest in the Western Hemisphere,1 but it doesn’t have a very distinct image in North America or Europe. In so far as most foreigners think of São Paulo … Continue reading →

I had lived in Chicago for thirty years, and I like trains, but I’d never gone and taken a look at the Chicago area’s only streetcar line, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. So I set out one Sunday afternoon on Chicago’s suburban … Continue reading →

Delhi has added more rail transit in the 21st century than any other city outside of East Asia. Although the first line did not open until 2002, there are now 190 route kilometers and 2.4 million riders a day. Among … Continue reading →