Those who take the underground to work would belike agree that it is neither an especially enjoyable experience nor very pleasant to look at . Things can seem a set grittier and grimier underground , even when you go on to be in a perfectly charming metropolis with reliable and quick metro line .
To give us a different perspective , a originative squad commissioned byQuickQuidand an expert in urban planning and design joined up to create aery images of some of the globe ’s quondam metro theodolite system . The team trace metro lines onto aery photos of six dissimilar cities , and the result is astonishingly beautiful and informatory .
For the directionally challenged , it ’s also a practical way of envision where exactly you are when you breeze through metro stops on your usual path home . “ Part of the mystery of move underground is that most of us do n’t really be intimate where we are in relation to the surface when using the tube , ” the team wrote on QuickQuid ’s internet site .
Six metropolis , in six countries total , are featured : Boston , Glasgow , Berlin , Tokyo , Moscow , and Mexico City . One of the more surprising aspects is just how much ground is covered . Moscow ’s metro lines , for example , overlay 238 knot , make water it one of the world ’s longest arrangement . Glasgow ’s “ Shoogly Train , ” by contrast , has just 15 station spanning 6.5 miles .
QuickQuid ’s web site has some interesting ( and freakish ) information about the chronicle of each metro transit system as well . “ Before the underground open in 1935 , the first passenger train driver spent days practicing ride around the city with a Stalin - form dope on board in the lead of welcome the Soviet drawing card … as the metro ’s first official passenger , ” QuickQuid writes .
Scroll down to see all six aeriform images , and check out out QuickQuid’swebsitefor more detail .
