The unpleasantness of Washington, DC’s Metro system is now international news. China Daily editor in chief Li Xing took to the pages of China’s largest English-language newspaper to do a quick comparison between the experience of riding the Beijing subway and Washington, DC’s Metro, which has the second-highest daily ridership of any American subway system. She admits that Beijing has its problems—between the crowded platforms and the even more dangerously crowded trains, riders basically have to swap a bit of their basic human dignity for a ride across town. But she says that the DC Metro is even worse.

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