Tokyo Metro

Yeah, it's totally seen as a, if not a perfect society, then definitely a fascinating and unique one.

I heard that they might, Tokyo Metro might be getting the contract to run our public transport and the Metro trains might, might lose it.

So, and I think the sentiment from everyone I tell that to is, oh, good.

Maybe things will run better around here.

we should look at how other world-class transit agencies actually put together their boards.

So more than half of the board members of the Tokyo Metro, for example, have former transit expertise, and the rest are, you know, lawyers or engineers or, you know, folks with financial experience or all of those other complementary skill sets that are necessary to help run a great and world-class organization.

It was really interesting to see you compare all the different areas in Europe and Asia that are known for their transit and how differently they all approach it.

Now, of course, there are statewide and countywide and city officials who were responsible for appointing members of the board.

At the height of the morning rush hour, the madness of indiscriminate murder.

In 1995, a group of suspicious men enters the Tokyo metro.

They all carry strange packages.

What happened later could be compared to a dramatic scene from a Batman movie.

A nervous gas created in the 1930s in Nazi Germany.

How did the attackers make such a powerful chemical weapon? The police would have been investigating the sect for several months.

And why did it all start with a group of yoga and meditation? The Tokyo metro system is a perfect machine.

9 million people move every day between their lines precisely and predictably.