The table illustrates the underground railway operation in the six biggest cities, including the
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, it can be seen that the oldest railway systems are the longest ones, Linking Words
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with the youngest routes that present the smaller routes.
London opened first (1863) and is nearly twice as expansive (394 Linking Words
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) as the second largest subway, in Paris, which opened in 1900 and is 199 Change the spelling
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, Paris now has more Linking Words
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compared to London (1,191,000,000 to 775,000,000). 3. Tokyo was the next oldest, having been constructed in 1927 with routes measuring a total of 155 Use synonyms
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passengers
annually.
The more modern subways are Washington, D.C. (1976), Kyoto (1981), and Los Angeles (2001). Washington is the largest of the 3 at 126 Use synonyms
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passengers
. 3. Kyoto is by far the smallest (11 Use synonyms
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) and serves relatively few individuals (45 million). Change the spelling
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Similarly
, the Los Angeles subway is 18 Linking Words
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in cumulative length, and only 50,000,000 people travel on it each year.Change the spelling
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