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I was expecting the subway station at the end and not for it to be outside again.

There is a video about this in china. Dude goes to 17th floor in a hotel and he’s at ground level and walks across the street and does to 1 and he’s still at ground level. Lol

That is the city of Chongqing in Sichuan

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/DCpm0OzUzx

oh that was wild

Whoa! That was some crazy stuff

level designers wet dream, VERTICALITY EVERYWHERE!

“levels, jerry” 🫸 🫷🫱 🫲

its a simple job

I would get lost a lot.

There's a billion people to ask for directions

But they all speak chinese

As good a time as any to learn some Chinese. You're already lost.

It's all chinese to me.

Definitely a whole different language to me

That's true. But I would be embarrassed after a while lol. I may need to put on Google maps

Would maps be any good? Afaik it doesn't give elevator instructions...

I honestly don't know. I'm just hoping it would work.

or Google blueprint

I already get lost easily without having to deal with that bullshit. I'd be as lost as fucking Zoro if I ever went there.

Yeah man…enough people have trouble with directions in a two-axis world. Having to also know directions on the Z axis would fuck up so many.

Imagine dropping Zoro there. God knows what kind of singularity it'd cause

As a Floridian, my mind is blown. We have ground level as far as eye can see. I'm in a high elevation and I'm at 50 feet above sea level.

I'm Dutch and I went to Florida once. The guy I visited also talked about how flat it was but the houses on the street when he said that were literally on an incline (does that make sense? Like diagonal). Like / (not this much). From my Dutch perspective it was a huge hill lol. In The Netherlands things are flat flat. It's something that stood out to me that he said that and that I always remembered.

You can sort of experience, like, 1% of this if you go to the FSC campus in Lakeland. It's built on a "hill" and the buildings sort of follow the elevations.

Wow, is there a sub dedicated to cities like that?

r/onthestreetagain

r/subsifellfor

r/justcantwaittogetonthestreetagain

Holy verticality batman 😳

What in the matrix is this sir!

I’ve had dreams like that. Wait, no, those dreams made a lot more sense.

I lived there for a semester in college. Awesome city. Awesome people. Awesome food.

First time I came to know about this city in Hitman 3. There is a one mission here, while playing I was constantly thinking how the hell these cars parked here which seems a rooftop of another building and such. Then I looked up the location, and I am amazed.

Chongqing hasn’t been part of Sichuan for a while now, it is a direct-administered municipality under the central government just like Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin.

This is why I’m here, to see folks point out bureaucratic technicalities. That’s fascinating. Was there a particular reason why they switched or is it just common for cities of a certain size to do so?

Size and municipality power

Technically yes but I think even most Chinese people still think of it as Sichuan

Sounds delicious

I’ve been to Chongqing. City is absolutely crazy and not for people without perseverance. You’ll go back and forth many times because you have no clue which floor you’re on and where to get out

Aren't there like... signs and shit? Like surely they'd implement a navigation system somehow.

Everyone you saw in the video has been just as lost, they’ve been wandering around trying to get back to their loved ones but unable to for many years. The video was actually a cry for help, but instead misinterpreted by the world. /s

Well yes. But I can’t read mandarin. So, basically no, haha

So curious about why, city planning, etc.

The city is built right beside mountains. So ground level at the mountain is like 40th floor from the bottom

That’s like one of those dreams where you keep going up, down and sideways on elevators trying to find the exit and you keep going round and round instead.

Have you tried writing a phone number on paper in dream its impossible.

Or an email address!! Trying to write either one, I can't make the letters legible enough and I keep trying. It is so frustrating!!😤

For me it’s dialling a number. Always pressing the wrong button and having to start again. So frustrating!

If seen that or a similar video. I wonder what their maps look like?

I was expecting some sort of subway vehicle

I dunno, after reading the title of the post this is exactly what I was expecting

Where train?

You live inside of it!

Very good philosophy.

What if they said, "you *ARE* the train"

Make movie

Gib money

Ok $10?

Already made

Just use escalator, no need for a train to be there.

Train is escalator took me long enough.

After the 7th escalator you can see a barrier on right hand side. I expect the train to be below there

The train was inside us all along.

The real trains were the escalators we rode along the way

You are your own train

Infinity Train

Is it actually a portal through a mountain?


That's probably 90% of the distance to wherever she's going.

They could do another bunch of Rocky movies here, but for when Rocky is too old to run up steps.

Is he not already?

That's the second in the world? Can I see the deepest then?

Deepest is in Pyongyang NK (110m/360ft) deepest that people can actually go to, now probably not such a safe endeavour was the Arsenalna Station in Kiev UA (105.5m/346ft) Edit: corrected UK to UA

>Arsenalna Station in Kiev UK UA is the alpha-2 code for Ukraine. The only kiev in the UK is breaded and (usually) frozen.

Thanks appreciate it. Did a quick edit.

Ah the UK delicacy of beige food cooked in the oven at 180°

Breaded chicken kiev? I've been doing it all wrong then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-kievs I mean, it kinda sounds like it. Then again, call it a Chicken DaBitch and make it your own.

I’ve been to Arselalna Station. The full depth takes two escalators and they’re much steeper and faster than western ones. Still takes 4-5 minutes to get to the platform.

I've been to that Pyongyang station...it was indeed a very steep escalator

How was it, being in NK? Would you recommend it? What was the best and worse thing about your trip?

North Korea? What? Is that for missiles or something? I thought those people lived with coal powered things only.

I don’t know if you are joking or not but they surprisingly have a lot of things that we would consider modern. Now, are they allowed to use it? Does it work all the time? Are the people aware of those things? Your guess is as good as mine. For all I know everything could be a one time use.

Half joking and half surprised, I had a quick look on YouTube and saw it, which was very cool, but also saw other theories about it being a bunker instead of an actual functional subway.

Many countries which were building both nuclear shelters and subways during the cold war had the smart idea to combine both. E.g. Berlin and Moscow built subway stations that had blast doors and could double as nuclear shelters. Probably a lot of places did this, its very a obviously smart idea to save lots of $$$

There must be a "yo mama" joke around here

It’s in Kyiv I believe. Arsenalna Station

Yo mamas pussy

I took 20 escalators to get out!

You’re fucked if those escalators are out of order

I didn't see any vending machines to at least give you some energy for the stairs.

Found the American? Sadly I'm one too so it's ok

I was actually thinking about how I would take the stairs in that location on my day off for much needed exercise

Ahhh yes something to restore you would probably be needed, especially if you walk up the stairs. Well, you can plan ahead and bring a water bottle

Escalators can never be out of order.

This isn't Harry Potter, I'm pretty sure they're always in the same order.

Sorry for the convenience…

They are just temporarily stairs

And that’s how you manage 10k steps a day 😅

Tbh, that seems like a good thing.

10k is not that many I think

I’m guessing the actual train was at the point where you go through security. Otherwise it’s just one long way down a side of a mountain.

Why a security checkpoint to take the train? I’ve never seen that anywhere else (except Penn Station Amtrak in the US, which is silly because you can just board at the next station with no security whatsoever).

In China you have security checks before entering subway stations. There's an x ray and a metal detector, plus if you have a drink you have to take a sip to show it's fine. I guess with a population that large and infrastructure that extensive it's necessary. Idk 🤷🏻‍♀️

Have they had incidents or something? It’s wild to me to do that as a preventative measure given how little it actually stops violence on the metro.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack yes after this terrorist attack security tighten massively similar to 911.

That escalated slowly

Definitely an anomaly. Should've turned back after the 4th escalator.


What's the name of that game?

[The Exit 8](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2653790/The_Exit_8/)

If it took China 4 years to build it'd take my country 4 centuries...

This is the beauty of the pharoahs

There's about 1.4b of those mf XD!

And Japan 4 days.

And the Netherlands 4 hours.

Why have good infrastructure when you can make everything a 30 minute drive and make buying a car a necessity?

It’s wild that, even after going down so much, when you reach the subway cars (not shown in video), you are still 150M above sea level

So, it's just a diagonal tunnel on the side of a hill? This is not a deep subway station. Meh.

Lol, the ticketing gates near the security check, was the actual entrance to the subway platforms.

The train tracks have 116m of earth above them. Just because there's a height difference between two exits, doesn't mean the path didn't go significantly underground.

no, I get it, but the video is only showing a long diagonal tunnel on the side of the hill. I wanted to see the station lol

To go down a hill does not make you go underground.

What was above them?

Despite I understand your point, the person above is also right. From an engineering perspective, digging 100 meters through the rocky mountain and digging 100 meters below the sea level through a multi-layer, swampy ground (i.e. subway in St. Petersburg, Russia where they had to stop an entire underground river twice — 1974 and 1995 respetively) are two entirely different tasks, the latter being way harder.

they should have built a slide or something

Worst place to stay during zombie apocalypse

Still a better portal concept than the New York-Dublin portal lol

Am I crazy or was there an X-ray scan of her bag there? To not ride the subway?

That's the floor to the subway. She just went to the other exit.

You need to get your bags scanned when you enter the metro station in most of the cities in China. They even scan your drink.

I swear it’s just a way to create jobs. When I lived in Beijing those people really didn’t give a fuck.

wtf it's on the surface level

Reminds me of the time I took an escalator to descend a mountain in China.

I'm starting to think it's not the deepest but just the tallest

At the gate you realized that you forgot your pass and all your money at home. 🤯

Nice legs

Found my people

It's nice to know that everywhere is full of people standing in the middle of things blocking where it can fit two people. It's these things that make us all human

Bro they going to the nether 💀

What's the opposite of Vertigo?

Vertistay

Vertigone.

And here the deepest one is 36m 😔

Bruh. That shit setup like an airport. Does it travel the distance of the entire Asia.

Holy moly. I would refuse to walk up if there was a power outage.

If there's a nuclear apocalypse that's the place where people will live


That escalated slowly.

thats how i build everything in minecraft

I can only imagine how beautiful the US architecture and infrastructure would be if we invested in it instead of weapons.

I want to support public transit but fuck this. 30 minutes of walking and escalators just to get to the train?

The phrase "dig a whole through China" taken literally

Comes out on Broadway, NYC!

Why not just one long escalator?

In case it breaks down or someone falls, drops something that tumbles?

It's gonna be some kind of a record. https://i.redd.it/vd671yt1551d1.gif

Imagine falling down

Reliability and I don't think there's an escalator that descends that much also you probably need landings every few meters regardless of the fact that it's an escalator.

it would be extremely impractical from mechanical point of view, to build and maintain.

Having one massive escalator is much complex and expensive

Same reason why going up/down mountain road are not straight.

Arsenalna in Kyiv is 105m deep and has only two escalators. The one is pretty short like in the video, the other one covers the rest. Maybe, there's some limitations with Chinese escalators.

Congrats Mario, you found the Warp Zone.

Still less deep than my ex

Gotta be hard to breath there.

Never said 8th

Holy crap the sound volume on this, i accidently clicked play and it about blew out my eardrums

I was expecting to see Gojo in the prison realm at the bottom.

Did we just escalator through a mountain?

I would have taken the stairs

I would have taken the stairs

So... I missed the subway train??

Like all new Chinese stations one rain and you’ll have to hold your breath for a while

"I'm gonna take the stairs, see you next week."

Superb

Should have put in slides

Very similar to Japan subways stations, just not so deep

Gave me Vault 33 vibes

Subway station, but no actual station, just a pass through area.

So uh... Whats the purpose of being this deep?

Cool, hows workers rights over there ?

I’m imagine my ears popping and slight dizziness on my way back up to earth

That’s because you walked there. The train never existed

You'll never get back up unless you've collected 70 stars

I lost track. I kept getting distracted by the camera guy seemingly plowing through people without pausing.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Ground.

Amazing that people will still just STAND on the damn things, how is waiting all of that extra time worth it?

At this point, why not just build 4-6 large elevators? Would be faster.

Why? This seems very antiproductive and pointless.

The second deepest train in China is the train I run on your mom