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 ...

Hundreds of commuters were sent to the hospital with injuries, including fractured bones, after two Beijing metro trains collided during evening rush hour on a busy route amid snowy weather. The crash ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The expansion of the Beijing Metro could serve as a metaphor for the rise of the People’s Republic of China as a superpower: Its first line opened in 1969, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, ...

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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.) ...

An anti-sexual harassment campaign has launched in parts of the Beijing subway system amid repeated reports of assault against women on the city’s public transport system. Sponsored by the state-run ...

Bob Woodruff takes us on a tour of the incredibly crowded subway system. — -- When I lived in China back in 1989 I rarely used the subway system here in Beijing. There were hardly any cars on the ...

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 ...