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a city's bloodstream, hurtling strangers underground while pretending the silence is normal
means A city's underground or rapid-transit rail system — or, loosely, the dense urban region it serves.
from Short for "metropolitan," itself from the Greek metropolis — mētēr ("mother") plus polis ("city"), literally the "mother city" that founded colonies. The clipped form took off with the Paris underground, the Chemin de Fer Métropolitain, opened around 1900 and quickly nicknamed le métro; the word then rode the rails into cities worldwide.
- deepest station
- Kyiv's Arsenalna sits 105 meters underground
- oldest line
- London's opened in 1863, steam-powered and choking
- busiest system
- Tokyo moves billions of riders yearly
- bomb shelters
- Moscow's deep stations doubled as wartime refuges
- rat ecology
- underground rats evolve distinct populations per station
tokyo metro — world's busiest rapid transit system, 3.7 billion annual passengers
paris metro — opened 1900, 302 stations covering 16 lines in france's capital
new york city subway — oldest continuous rapid transit system, opened 1904 with 472 stations
london underground — world's first underground railway, opened 1863 in england