The table below gives information about the underground railway systems in six cities. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

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6 cities’

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systems. The specifics include the dates when these opened, routes measured in kilometres and yearly commuters expressed in millions.

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, London’s underground

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is noted to be the first to operate. It

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runs the longest distance,

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on the total annual number of passengers, Tokyo takes the lead. For the starting years of the railways, London commenced its system in 1863, the first among the cities in the study. Exactly 37 years later, Paris followed. The cities of Tokyo, Washington DC and Kyoto initiated theirs in 1927, 1976 and 1981 respectively. The

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to open among them was the underground train system of Los Angeles in 2001. Noticeably, the length of the courses of the train systems is not directly proportional to the total number of people that use them on an annual basis. London’s

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, which stretches the most, treads a

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394 km

path, double that of Paris’. The shortest among the tracks is registered in Kyoto at 11km,

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Los Angeles by more than two times. Meanwhile, Tokyo accommodates almost 2 billion commuters on a yearly basis,

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Paris comes second at 700 million lower. The city

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systems with the least passengers are those of Kyoto and Los Angeles, not exceeding 100 million when combined.