Future Site of Qingdao Metro

When my daughter and I were in Qingdao a few years ago, we saw these fences covered with Metro signs everywhere. The advantage of central planning is that you can build a whole system at once. While cities in the U.S. have to plan and budget public transit one rail line and painful public process at a time, Qingdao was building an entire citywide metro system at once. It was scheduled to open later in the year that we were there, and I would love to go back and see what a difference it makes. Qingdao really needed a subway system. The city sprawls over hills and around waterfronts. Subways are simpler than buses and taxi drivers in Qingdao are brats. It must be so easy to get around Qingdao now.