Topic: Subway
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Why China's Subway Boom Went Bust
Officials say 70 to 80 percent of China's planned subway lines are being postponed. What's the country to do?
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Throwing It All Away: NYC Subway Trashes More Trash Cans
Transit officials say a pilot program has helped reduce garbage inside stations, but results elsewhere have been mixed.
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Videos
A Most Unusual Panhandling Scam
This subway beggar can't be for real.
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Maps
Are Our Transit Maps Tricking Us?
Subway maps distort the reality on the ground for all kinds of reasons. What happens when we make decisions based on them?
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Advice for Passing a Massive Infrastructure Referendum
Atlanta's voters rejected a one-cent sales tax to fund a public transportation overhaul. Lessons from Denver, Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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Videos
This Is Why You Don't Mind-Meld With Your Smartphone in the Subway
Philadelphia officials want to combat such painful examples of "distracted walking."
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Metrocards Could Be Pieces of a Gigantic Urban Puzzle
A Brooklyn design firm proposes a clever way to combine advertising and adventuring.
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Photos
New York's Lovely Abandoned Subway Station
Photographs of the phantom City Hall station capture transit charm of yore.
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Videos
The 10 Best Songs About the Subway
Inspired by a new contest to write a song inspired by the G train.
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The Underground New York Public Library
A subway-hopping photographer memorializes reading riders on a Tumblr blog.
