China builds subways to nowhere

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Via the FT:

The marshlands on the outskirts of Suzhou, a city of 11m about 100km west of Shanghai, are home to pods of pelicans — and a subway station.

Mulberry Plantation is the final stop on Suzhou’s subway line 2 — a terminus that a station security guard estimated was used by a total of 100 passengers during morning and afternoon rush hours.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.