Subway Letdowns

This will be the last post about the subway for a long while, I promise. Having ridden this thing for nearly 10 years now I've seen it grow by leaps and bounds to become the world's largest subway network.

But I've also seen some major frustrations develop where the system is going down the tubes, literally, or it most certainly is not living up to its potential. This is what makes me so angry, that such a world-class potential subway system ends up fraught with trouble and obstacles, to the point where you are better off not using it in the first place.

The same could be said for a lot of new developments in China that are not living up to their potential. I call this the `cha bu duo` mentality where people don't strive for quality or excellence, only what is 'cha bu duo' which is just enough to get by. As a result, new quickly becomes old, and systems with huge potential end up going down the drain simply because people don't care enough