The most extensive changes to New York's subway routes in decades became a reality yesterday as service over the bridge was expanded, but many New Yorkers and tourists apparently didn't get the memo.
Most European cities, even those with extensive subway systems, also rely on trams.
At the time, most planners were calling for the development of extensive subway systems as the cutting-edge mode of urban transport.
New York's public transit and subway system is one of the most extensive in the world and public transit is used by the majority of the city's commuters.
Meanwhile, China has completely revamped nearly all of its major cities, decked them out with advanced and modern public transportation systems, subways, covered its country with the most extensive high-speed rail network the world has ever known, as well as built hundreds of completely new cities all in little more than 15 years.
Even the most wayworn city traveller will feel exhilarated, as I did, upon first stepping into Seoul's subway network, still growing yet already the most extensive in the world.
The subway system, one of the world's most extensive, had been subjected to attacks related to the separatist war in Chechnya in the early part of the last decade.
The subway system in Moscow is one of the world's most extensive and well managed, and the bombings on Monday spread anxiety that is unlikely to dissipate for some time.
The new service, the most extensive use of such new technology in the nation, will begin on major thoroughfares that link up with the subway: Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley and Wilshire Boulevard from the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica to the city of Montebello, 26 miles to the east.
