Proposed world subway systems completely ignores Africa

Posted on 14. Dec, 2007 by Jonathan Cherry in Design

Can you believe it. In a proposed subway system for the planet [shown here] the line basically ends in Algiers.

The rest …ending in what could be Cape Town…is under construction [the only section that is] for the foreseeable future. Now how on earth are we going to conveniently populate the world with starving refugees if you don’t send a line down here people?
You’re distributing criminals by sending a train or two to Australia.

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11 Responses to “Proposed world subway systems completely ignores Africa”

Nic

14. Dec, 2007

I’ll bet this was created by an American!
Miguel

14. Dec, 2007

Huh, They’re proposing an under construction section? That doesn’t make sense?
It’s a proposal. The whole thing is under construction, and when it’s complete, they’ve set aside a permanent under construction section?
Colin Seymour

14. Dec, 2007

Ha, the cheek of it. And they wonder why Africa is such a mystery to some. Unbelievable. What’s even more unbelievable is the lack of imagination when constructing the map – it’s the London Underground Map plonked (with a bit of stretching and shaping) on top of a map of the world (also manipulated).
wkdSA

14. Dec, 2007

Reading the actual text below the image it says:
“This playful diagram shows all the cities which have, are building or planning to construct an urban rail system. It is the opening page of a new book about the graphic design of subway, metro, underground and U-Bahn system maps and diagrams…”
I guess our rail system design is so bad it did not deserve mention.
esvl

16. Dec, 2007

Baaah!!!!. Dont let them come in Africa.
SENSUAL ALTER

18. Jan, 2008

There should be metros in big cities in Southern Africa, big cities like Johannesburg,Cape Town and Durban. People in this cities need it
SENSUAL ALTER

18. Jan, 2008

There should be metros in big cities in Southern Africa, big cities like Johannesburg,Cape Town and Durban. People in this cities need it
Steve

20. Jan, 2008

Eich, Munich – my own home town – is on the Jubilee line… what a perfect match — who the hell has done that map? Obviously that person had quite a strange sense of humor… :-/
And even if they were to extend “District Line” to Cape Town, I would have to change twice at least to get from “The world city with a heart” down to “Mother City”… still a long way to go Greetings to everybody in my favourite town Cape Town!
Robert

24. Sep, 2008

i propose a space elevator to the moon and beyond.
rocker

25. Sep, 2008

I don’t want to be connected with mexico any more than I have to. They already get in to easily.
winnie

18. Feb, 2009

I intend to construct a subway in my capital, NAIROBI,KENYA. If they dont like it they can go to hell.Africa will rise to a level greater than ever imagined.