Beijing’s metro system has already grown bigger than the London Underground – and by 2020 it will more than double in size again. Tania Branigan takes its longest journey to see how the city is coping ...

A passenger carrying a bicycle enters Xitucheng Station of Beijing Subway in Beijing, capital of China, May 16, 2026. Beijing launched a pilot service on May 10 that allows passengers to bring their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subway line in Beijing looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. Line 6 had its subway windows replaced with a “magical window ...

For Chinese officials struggling in the face of both bottom-up dissatisfaction at increasingly congested roadways and top-down pressure to cut carbon emissions, expanding public mass transit systems ...