Topic: Down a hole in Seoul...

[rrocket]

On occasion though you can have circumstances of 'skinny' people pushing and trying to keep the doors open to squeeze in and then end up getting caught between the doors and then the train takes off. Messy smears...
Railton

For real?  How often does this happen?  In a city with millions, how many deaths a year do these subway accidents cause?

[Railton]

On occasion though you can have circumstances of 'skinny' people pushing and trying to keep the doors open to squeeze in and then end up getting caught between the doors and then the train takes off. Messy smears...
Railton

For real?  How often does this happen?  In a city with millions, how many deaths a year do these subway accidents cause?

I've only heard of it happening once in Shanghai a few years ago.
Railton

[duck]

Thanks for the pics Railton 

[DockMan]

And you think your commute is bad....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MepDaRRBP0

[safristi]

 ...stand back when those doors RE_OPEN......................T8Ts and arses everywhere...............frottage must be legal there.................

[Railton]

SK...Saskatchewan ?.........do they have 7/11's there..... cheap j/k?

Yes Francis.
Railton

[99 Silver]

I am curious about the tunnels. 

Were they just blasted then shotcrete with rock bolts, or did they have a poured concrete lining on the walls and ceiling?

[Railton]

I am curious about the tunnels. 

Were they just blasted then shotcrete with rock bolts, or did they have a poured concrete lining on the walls and ceiling?

Eventually it will be all concrete lined but it is shotcrete first. Compare the two pictures, one with the shotcrete on the basic tunnel and the other with the poured floors and walls.
Railton

[random006]

The population here is expanding very quickly. The city center itself is around 10-12M but they refer to some 'SNCA' or National Capital area that takes into account 30-40 cities which they are in the mdist of linking togther with their subway system expansion.
The pictures of the condo/apartments being built around Pangyo station in an earlier post detail their rapid expansion and development plans. All of those buildings are new and currently no one lives there. This is why the new subway must be on schedule to coincide with the openings of all those condos and apartments and why we are in the planning stages of the next two extensions of it already. We don't know what growth is in Canada compared to other parts of the world.
Francis tables an interesting point about big cities and the poverty that goes along with them traditionally. In the various cities in China that I've visited you do notice the have and have nots yet, not so here. Here people seem to be pretty happy with their lot (12 hr days the norm notwithstanding and satelite family kid raising and such) at least from what I've seen. There's not much imigration from SK into Canada.
Railton

Given the linking of the other cities, maybe they should rename the whole area "Pangea". 

[Railton]

The population here is expanding very quickly. The city center itself is around 10-12M but they refer to some 'SNCA' or National Capital area that takes into account 30-40 cities which they are in the mdist of linking togther with their subway system expansion.
The pictures of the condo/apartments being built around Pangyo station in an earlier post detail their rapid expansion and development plans. All of those buildings are new and currently no one lives there. This is why the new subway must be on schedule to coincide with the openings of all those condos and apartments and why we are in the planning stages of the next two extensions of it already. We don't know what growth is in Canada compared to other parts of the world.
Francis tables an interesting point about big cities and the poverty that goes along with them traditionally. In the various cities in China that I've visited you do notice the have and have nots yet, not so here. Here people seem to be pretty happy with their lot (12 hr days the norm notwithstanding and satelite family kid raising and such) at least from what I've seen. There's not much imigration from SK into Canada.
Railton

Given the linking of the other cities, maybe they should rename the whole area "Pangea". 

Good one.
Railton