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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Okay, so I've never been to Shenzhen (or at least I don't remember ever going there), but I just looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_Metro

If you went there like... before 2010 or something, pehaps you wouldn't see much of that, because they were kinda still building it.

The subways are all underground, so you probably didn't notice them unless you went looking for them, it's not like the US where some parts of the subway are above-ground, and others are underground. I have no idea how you didn't see any of the busses tho... perhaps you didn't pay attention to your surroundings... 😅

TLDR: Public transit exists, you either went there like a long time ago before they got built, or just didn't pay enough attention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, I don't doubt it exists and probably is well used by the people living there. Just wanted to address the part of the comment saying "China would never allow for a “car culture” in the firsr place" because there sure was a car culture. It felt like an American city.

I'm also aware that Shenzen is different from the rest of China, and, well, that the rest of China is different from the other rest of China.