On the subway in Beijing, as in most cities with underground Wi-Fi connections, commuters usually spend their rides mindlessly staring at their phones, scrolling through emails or playing games. But ...

Beijing's metro network was proposed more than 50 years ago to mixed reactions. Li Ye traces the history. It is 1969, and workers who took part in the subway construction eagerly wait for the first ...

When the Beijing Subway opened on 1 October 1969, only two short lines served the growing Chinese capital. Now, with a population of over 17.4 million in the metro area, Beijing has to act fast to ...

The Beijing MTR joint venture (JV) (Beijing MTR) in China has signed the concession agreement with the municipal government for the Beijing Metro Line 16 public-private partnership (PPP) project.

Two subway trains collided in heavy snow in Beijing, resulting in 515 people being sent to the hospital on Thursday evening. The incident occurred in the mountainous west of Beijing, on the ...

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Reporting from BEIJING — When a single mother was crushed to death while trying to get onto an overcrowded subway train in November, it pointed to a problem that transit officials in the Chinese ...

Recently I took my 200th trip on the Beijing Metro. I know because I used up the fourth 100RMB charge on my Metro card, below. (Rides are for now 2RMB apiece, about 28 cents, regardless of distance.) ...

Anyone who takes a Metro train on a semi-regular basis doesn't need a reminder that station escalators break down at an alarming rate. But the Washington Examiner gave us one, anyway. According to the ...