stackyFACTSYou might blame the dense crowds, but the suffocating warmth on an underground platform is mostly generated by massive metal trains grinding their friction brakes to a halt hundreds of times a day right next to your face.
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Despite being located in a region known for dreary weather, these deep transit tunnels turn into blast furnaces during the summer months. Commuters are forced…
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That guy passionately playing a bucket drum next to the turnstiles is likely a licensed performer. Because chaotic sound systems echoing down tiled tunnels…
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The metal arms guarding the entrance to underground platforms are perfectly calibrated to cause maximum blunt-force trauma if your fare card malfunctions.…
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Those metal spinning arms aren't actually secure enough to stop a determined criminal. They just provide exactly enough physical inconvenience to guilt the…
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Instead of a flashing digital screen overcharging you, ancient hired carts operated by dropping a single small rock into a metal bowl for every specific…
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Instead of staring at peeling paint and questionable stains, commuters in this underground network get to look at painted caves, mosaics, and sculptures. It…
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