The Pros And Cons Of The Subway System

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By the end of the day, the problem might be the cleaning staff or the vacumn train, but “New Yorkers“ are the problem we can’t deny.
I barely remember the days without metro system in Taipei.
The subway is always crowded at rush hours, people heading to school, heading to work or heading home. Compared to New York Metro, the system in Taipei is really new, it start operating in 1996, according to Taipei’s metro.com the system carries an average of 2.10 million passengers a day from demographics of March 2016. It has been 20 years from the first day the system started, and it still looks brand new.
In Tokyo, almost eight million daily riders, subway system is far more crowded than New York's. Imagine adding nearly 3.5 million riders to a

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