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The New York Times/纽约时报：

New York commuters suffer regular delays. Aging tracks at Penn Station are being rebuilt after a series of derailments. The entire subway system is operating under a state of emergency.

Halfway around the world, China is rushing to build new subway systems. Here in Shanghai, three new lines are being extended this year. Trains are nearly always on time.

Subway systems in Shanghai, and across China, shut down every evening. Only in the last few months has Shanghai even extended the closing time for its most heavily used lines to midnight, while other routes still close as early as 10:30 p.m.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority takes pride in keeping all 472 of its stations open 24 hours a day.

South China Morning Post/南华早报：

Average weekday traffic on the Shanghai Metro stands at 10.65 million individual trips, which makes it second only to Tokyo. Record traffic reached 11.8 million trips on April 28, a day in which four lines had more than a million passengers each.

More than 4,000 trains – triple the number running in 2005 – serve the network’s 367 stations and run with a punctuality rate of 99.82 per cent – similar to the 99.9 per cent achieved by Hong Kong’s MTR. Five thousand security staff and 30,000 CCTV cameras make the Shanghai network one of the safest in the world.

commuter 上下班往返的人

delay 延误

derailment 脱轨

state of emergency 紧急状态

closing time 停运时间

route 路线

weekday 周一至周五的一天

traffic 人流；车流；物流

second only to 仅次于

punctuality rate 准时率

CCTV （Closed Circuit Television）闭路电视