One recently won metro of the year; the other declared a state of emergency. How did two such similar transit systems end up on such different tracks?

“... The story of how the two most important metros in the western world, serving cities with such similar pressures of population (between 8 and 9 million, and growing) and hyper-development, diverged so drastically is a story of many things – but chiefly, says Nicole Badstuber, an expert who studies transport governance at University College London and once worked for Transport for London (TfL), it is “a story of maintenance”

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One recently won metro of the year; the other declared a state of emergency. How did two such similar transit systems end up on such different tracks?

“... The story of how the two most important metros in the western world, serving cities with such similar pressures of population (between 8 and 9 million, and growing) and hyper-development, diverged so drastically is a story of many things – but chiefly, says Nicole Badstuber, an expert who studies transport governance at University College London and once worked for Transport for London (TfL), it is “a story of maintenance”

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