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10 interesting facts about the subway
1. 61 attempted suicide occurs in a year in the metro in Paris. On the global statistics, every 20th suicide - in the subway.
2. 491 958 passengers a day passing through the world's most bustling subway station "Ikebukuro" Tokyo.
3. 155 million subway passengers daily uses. This is 34 times the number of passengers.
4. 150 children were born in the Moscow metro during the German bombing (1941-1942.).
5. The length of subway lines around the world more than 10 thousand kilometers (the distance from the North Pole to the equator).
6. The peak number of subway cars in Tokyo, designed for women, some men are very intemperance Tokyo ...
7. is 12 m diameter tunnels in Barcelona. According to him go the most unusual in the world of double-decker trains.
8. 25 000 buses will not need that in Mecca (Saudi Arabia), let the first subway line.
9. 33% of the train braking energy is converted into electricity in the metro Bilbao.
10. 30 metro lines in the world of work without the driver. 75% of the planned lines - automatic.
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