Discovery Channel: Man-Made Marval- Beijing Metro System

[Chris58851]

Is it safe? The first question when you listening to radio or news paper that their subway collided or leakings from every cracks in newly build station platform.

[14j3ketlgds]

@Chris58851 Umm I've been on the Beijing Subway, it's actually quite safe, the subway crashes in China that you heard of are from Shanghai... but one thing that's not very good about the subway is that they're too quick in opening the lines. One example is Line 10, the construction markings haven't even been erased and the plastic covering hasn't been removed yet! However I think Beijing Subway should be considered as a world-class subway system.

[MsOneiroi77]

wouldnt live there too many people

[soopie1]

/watch?v=04QoA44c23A

[eathoy]

the world especially the western world love to criticize china based on limited knowledge,but once they really understand the country the culture and the people's life,they always amazed that how much we are achieved during so many years hardest working.

[joeflyer72]

Do you have the second part?

[CANAONQ]

@joeflyer72 Yes I do have

[jewishwarrior666]

"Impossible is not chinese, if they want it they will do it"....what else would you expect from the people who built the great wall.

[Konig1985]

my GOD... imagine the number of cameras they need to have to detect one terrorist in the sea of people.

[CANAONQ]

@Konig1985 yes, technology is cut-edging.

[tri400]

why dont they build overground Metro like Delhi and Kuala Lumpur?

[albert008]

@tri400 , That would be very expensive for a developed city. The cheapest way is to go underground.

[CANAONQ]

there are too many cloverleaf conjuctions in Beijing, it is impossible to build overground metro.

[Konig1985]

@tri400

because land price in beijing is more explansive than delhi and KL combinED! why build metro on it when you can sell it to developers at a premium?

[lukebccb]

@tri400: undergrounds are more expensive to build but elevated structures take up expensive and precious crowded spaces in big crowded cities so the cost of underground pays for itself in the long run.

[enzhus]

I don't know how Discovery channel could be so wrong in this program. Beijing subway system won't be the largest in the world because it even won't be the largest one in China. Shanghai has had 367km subway system and it will be over 800km by 2020.

[CANAONQ]

they were a leading country before.

[acatisfinetoowut1]

Damn, the Chinese sure likes to do things fast and big. Their new transport infarstructure is lightyears ahead of what we have in Canada. They'll probably rule the world in a few more decades.