When Beijing won its bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the Chinese capital had about as many --or maybe fewer--subway lines as Los Angeles. Since that time in 2001, Beijing has moved quickly to lay several more subway lines. The public transportation network in Beijing has been improved in a major way. For example, Beijing's new Olympic subway line is beautiful and efficient. Los Angeles' new subway lines and stations are quite well designed, modern, and beautiful, making it so that right now L.A.'s system is nowhere as extensive as Peking's!! Take a look at this interesting article.
But, the bad thing is that some subway lines in Beijing have no signs in English and station names are not romanized.... Scary!
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