Little Fascinations: Lovely Underground

There is something particularly striking, to me, about underground environments. DesignBoom recently posted a collection of images and descriptions of some of the most amazing subway architecture around the world. I am personally biased towards the Munich system and had gone so far as to develop a music mix to compliment the slideshow of the Flickr photo-pool dedicated to the system, which you can listen to and view here. I've included a handful of the images from the article, but suggest you view the full article at DesignBoom to read up a little on these various systems, none of which are in the US (shock & awe, i know). Clearly, other parts of the world have higher ridership than here and thus have the resources and the requirement of their patrons to make their stations as interesting/appealing as possible. Of course, this type of unique beauty also brings non-traditional riders to the systems as well - I myself am a total public transit tourist. Can such striking elements bring more riders onto US systems? I believe so and think that we will see more of this type of work in this country in the future.

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