Comments on: “Give Them Bread and Circuses, and TV Ads on the Subway” http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/01/12/give-them-bread-and-circuses-and-tv-ads-on-the-subway/ Exploring urban life through word and photography Wed, 22 May 2013 12:50:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Mary Soderstrom http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/01/12/give-them-bread-and-circuses-and-tv-ads-on-the-subway/comment-page-1/#comment-131369 Mary Soderstrom Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:50:42 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/01/13/give-them-bread-and-circuses-and-tv-ads-on-the-subway/#comment-131369 My stay in Shanghai was nearlly two years ago now, and things have obviously changed, but I don’t remember having trouble getting around. At least I found enough signage in English to keep from getting lost, althuogh I rode the system three days before I realized that the announcements were being given in English as well as Mandarin. Let’s say the accent wasn’t standard mid-Atlantic English!

But one of the things that 100 more kilometers of Metro with their attendant stations will mean is: more places for young lovers to meet. Late afternoon the suburban stations seemed to be liberally sprinkled with young couples (15 and up) looking soufully into each others’ eyes and etc. They weren’t there an hour or so later, and I surmised they were high school kids who had to get home for supper, but who had no place to hang out until then.

Mary

]]> By: Patrick Donovan http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/01/12/give-them-bread-and-circuses-and-tv-ads-on-the-subway/comment-page-1/#comment-131346 Patrick Donovan Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:54:40 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/01/13/give-them-bread-and-circuses-and-tv-ads-on-the-subway/#comment-131346 I was unimpressed with the Shanghai metro system – it is bland yet functional. The crappy flickery fluorescent lighting in most of the stations certainly didn’t enhance the appeal. I also found it confusing at first for a non Chinese speaker, as there’s very little English around unlike the Hong Kong, Guanghzou, or Beijing metro systems. Certainly nowhere as exciting as what is going on above ground in Shanghai.

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