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ChineseMadrid Metro Television Spot
Added on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Click the above image to watch the commercial.
I found this commercial for the Madrid Metro via the Carfree USA blog. This stunning ode to urban life and subterranean transit shows that in some places the kind of money and time that goes into car advertisements also goes into promoting mass transit. According to the Wikipedia entry on the Madrid Metro, the 12 lines that serve Madrid’s 3.5 million people (6 million in the larger metropolitan area) span 175 miles and make it the 8th longest urban rail system in the world. Los Angeles, a city of 3.8 million people and a metropolitan area of 12.9 million people comes in 18th place, with 73 miles of urban rail.
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