I wondered about that, too, as Boston has well over 100 rail stops. But when you subtract the green line light rail, that leaves a bit under 60 for the other lines.
I don't know the exact definition of 'metro rail' but no one in Rome really considers Line C as part of the metro, I guess because it's 'above ground' and unconnected to Lines A and B. It looks more like a 'normal rail' except maybe the parts inside the ring road or something - see this wikipedia map. But I guess it would be too hard to check all individual cases
I beg to differ. EVERYONE in Rome refers to line C as "Metro C", whatever it is. We're so starved of metro transport here that everything that remotely resembles one we dub it as METRO. The link with line A in San Giovanni was opened in 2018. Of course, it's often closed, but that's another Roman story...
In my opinion, neither should be grouped together for this quiz. Guangzhou/Shenzhen are sometimes grouped together as one gigantic Pearl River Delta city, but their subway lines don't even connect. There are plans to merge them in the future though, along with a few other PRD cities.
Agreed - Guangzhou and Shenzhen can be considered a single urban area for the vast majority of Jetpunk quizzes, but for this one they should be two separate answers given that their metro systems are different.
Sydney definitely should have a mention, within the greater city there are a host of stations see....... http://www.sydneytrains.info/stations/pdf/suburban_map.pdf
It doesn't count because the Green Line's 66 stations are considered "Light Rail" even though they go underground and become a subway, the first subway in the U.S. Including the Green Line and BRT there are 145 stations.
Much of the green line "light rail" is underground, thus separated. There doesn't seem to be a great source on actual subways, as "metros" can mean wildly different things by locale. I'm really not sure what difference light rail or other means to the riders who have the service of taking a train across a metropolitan area. It's all the same to them.
The St. Petersburg metro is definitely the wackest metro I've ever ridden on. It's like 300 feet underground and it's super fancy, decorated with marble walls and chandeliers and artwork.
As a professional tour guide, I can testify that subway stations don't need to be beautiful or fancy to merit having guided tours. They just need to be historically interesting.
(This is not to refute your statement that the Moscow statement is fancy. Just pointing out that there is more to touring than beauty.)
London Underground first opened in 1863 and made a big celebration out of its 150th anniversary in 2013. Wikipedia quotes a 1890 date when some of the deeper tunnels opened but that doesn't change the fact it had been operating for nearly 30 years prior to that.
"The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system"
Brussels (Brussel/Bruxelles) is missing, it has 59 stops on 4 metro lines (and plans to add a line by converting an underground tram line to a metro line).
I lived in Hangzhou for a year back in 2015, and there was only one working subway line back then. But the whole city was upside down with the metro works. Now they are the 25th network in the world and growing. It's just nuts...
Because those are most probably Commuter and Suburban Railways or light Rail not Metro rail, Even though it is called Melbourne Metro. The 1st Metro of Australia is under construction in Sydney.
This puzzles me. The stations mentioned in Melbourne and Sydney are not light rail. Why is a city's suburban rail network not a metro? Wikipedia does not help to clear up this question.
The Rhein-Ruhr area has a substantial number of metro stops (124). You could allow for individual city names to cover it (Cologne, Dusseldorf, Essen etc...).
As of 2019, Hangzhou subway network has 90 stations, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou_Metro , with more to come in the near future.
Wikipedia is written by way too many random people, anyone who feels like it with an internet connection. The chart in your source lists 51 for Boston. In the very same row it lists the transit authority hyperlinked to Wikipedia's own article about it (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MBTA_subway_stations).
That article on Boston's subway lists 66 stations just for the Green Line alone, 1 more than the quiz's requirement of 65. 133 is the number, according to the link in the source's chart, listed as the number for all MBTA stops.
But, I don't know. Wikipedia numbers always contradict each other, often within the same sentence so I didn't put much effort to investigate the article very far.
There aren't 7.7 billion people who have a say in moving my couch up my stairs in my house. There are 7.7 billion people who can and do fill Wikipedia with vastly conflicting information. There is wrong or incongruous information on any article I've ever seen there. That is why Wikipedia is not allowed as a source by even paper mill colleges nor by any known school teacher.
No, I can't fix Wikipedia and won't make the attempt because it's useless.
There aren't 7.7 billion people who have access to the internet. Pedantry aside, I highly doubt most people will care to edit inaccurate information (there isn't much room for opinion in this article, so that's not a concern). Those who do will have more popular articles to focus. Wikipedia isn't perfect, but it's decent for niche topics where there is no reason for anyone to sabotage and it is sometimes the only / clearest source.
If you had perhaps "investigated the article" a little further, you would have found the answer to your question. The chart in the quiz's source is specifically metro stations, meaning "electrified rapid transit train system," that are "operated on their own right of way and segregated from general road and pedestrian traffic." It specifically does not include light rail (like the Green Line) or bus services (like the Silver Line.)
China has really been the most active country in building subway systems in recent times. Urbanrail.net is a really good site for anyone interested in subway systems in general.
On successive trips to Guangzhou, it was amazing to see how rapidly the metro was expanding and new lines and stations being added. Modern China is certainly fast at building infrastructure, though we'll have to wait and see if it stands the test of time.
Overall, good quiz - only missed Toronto, Hamburg and Zhengzhou.
Bit unsure of the criteria for this list. My hometown of Melbourne has 218 train stations. While I'm sure some of them aren't classified as 'metro', I'm surprised its not on the list at all. Sydney has a large metro system as well.
To be fair, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane should be there if Kuala Lumpur can. Because I can barely call half the system a 'metro' as lines 3,4,5 and 8 are named LRT on the map. If the requirements are like you need at least half your system underground, then London shouldn't even be on the list. Poor Australia 😥
London has had a metro since 1863, not 1890. The first deep underground tube line was opened in 1890, but the METROpolitan line has existed since 1863.
What the hell? The US has famously bad public transit compared with most European countries. There's more to transport than just metro systems, and your cities are on the whole bigger than ours so obviously there are more stops.
whaaat? US has terrible public transport, it's utterly car reliant. There are only 3 US cities on that list while there are 13 European cities. There are only 12 metro systems in the US, most of them paltry compared to their respective cities, while there are near 60 systems in Europe, some catering to small towns.
They may not have enough stations to make the list, but Prague (61 stations) and Budapest (48 stations) both have very cool subways. Check out the 70s aluminum tiles in Prague and the Fin-de-Siecle style in Budapest, plus the SUPER FAST escalator. Also Kyoto has these crazy red rubber tires on a big rubber bar in the center of the tracks, so the stopping trains make a funny squeaky sound rather than the normal metallic one. It's unique.
(This is not to refute your statement that the Moscow statement is fancy. Just pointing out that there is more to touring than beauty.)
"The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system"
That article on Boston's subway lists 66 stations just for the Green Line alone, 1 more than the quiz's requirement of 65. 133 is the number, according to the link in the source's chart, listed as the number for all MBTA stops.
But, I don't know. Wikipedia numbers always contradict each other, often within the same sentence so I didn't put much effort to investigate the article very far.
(In case of getting furniture up the stairs, this ís true by the way! ;) )
No, I can't fix Wikipedia and won't make the attempt because it's useless.
Me after the quiz: It was Oslo and Hong Kong
Overall, good quiz - only missed Toronto, Hamburg and Zhengzhou.
After all I have the largest number of Quizzes related to Metro
Every city with a Metro Rail system on a World Map
New York City Subway Stations on a Map
Delhi Metro Stations on a Map
Amsterdam Metro Stations on a Map
Tokyo Subway Stations on a Map
Chicago L Stations on a Map
Sydney Metro will have it's first anniversary after 18 days and it's 36 km with 13 stations.
If you are talking about Sydney City Trains the it's classified as a commuter Rail rather than a Metro.
All the stations of Melbourne Metro is also classified as a Suburban Railway rather than a Metro
Also, why are we still using Wikipedia?
41 stations
- Shanghai metro in 1992:
0 stations (no metro)
*fast forward 28 years*
Rio de Janeiro metro in 2020:
41 stations
- Shanghai metro in 2020:
551 stations
The worst is, I have actually been in the metro in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur before haha
Lesson learned: Read the directions
• Melbourne (222 metro stations)
• Sydney (170 metro stations)
• Brisbane (139 metro stations)
• Adelaide (89 metro stations)
• Perth (72 metro stations)
[Date 2022-07-04]