Boston and New York City compete to build the first subway system, which sends ripples through the mass transit system forever, in this clip from Season 1, “Race to the Underground.”
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Uninformative lying spreader of disinformation and we know this by the way they talk about President Trump and nobody once they hear what WHDH has the say about President Trump
Whdh 5 Boston has to be the most
Funny, at 1:41 the photo shows the Budapest Opera House. In 1896 they also opened an underground 3.7 km long with 11 stations. Incidentally, it was the first electric in the world
It's sad to see that America was one of the first to build subways and yet…had turned their backs on them in favour of car dependency.
Meanwhile Metro Manila in the Philippines started building its own Subway