The infrastructurally-obsessed will appreciate the Transport Politic‘s summary of the Chinese boom in local rapid transit, prompted by the observation that Shanghai now has the longest metro network in the world, despite having begun the first tracks merely fifteen years ago.  The local transit boom parallels the Chinese investment in high-speed rail which mammoth previously discussed, and which Freedmark notes is further evidence that, while major American cities are “not making much of an effort to prepare for their increasingly urban futures by building new transit links”, Chinese cities, with the support of the national government, are.