Here’s something kind of eye-opening: California is an incredibly rich and prosperous state, and yet our public transportation sucks. Los Angeles has a relative GDP that is twenty times the size of Tehran, yet the ridership of its rail system is not even 10% of the Iranian capital. Look how much more complete the rail system is compared to the city of angels.
Having seen the above map, I figured, oh, sure, but the Tehran rail system is probably some godawful piece of junk from a century ago that barely functions. Errr, not so much. Kind of a random post, I realize, but just sayin’.
