List of busiest stations in United States

Here is the ranking of US stations by ridership.
Data was collected in 2016 or 2017.
If a station doesn't have data of off-passengers, the number of on-passengers is doubled.

Rank/順位	English	City	ppl/乗降客数	footnote/脚注
1st	Penn	New York	206,921	Sum of MTA, Amtrak, and Subway
2nd	Times Sq-42 St	New York	204,908
3rd	Grand Central-42	New York	157,899
4th	Union	Chicago	127,233	Sum of RTA and L
5th	34 St-Herald Sq	Chicago	125,355
6th	14 St-Union Sq	New York	109,472
7th	Ogilvie Transportation Ctr	Chicago	101,214	Sum of RTA and L
8th	59 St-Columbus	New York	74,572
9th	Lexington Av-53St	New York	70,606
10th	Fulton St	New York	69,444
11th	Lexington Av	New York	69,332
12th	86St	New York	65,634
13th	47-50Sts-Rockefeller Center	New York	62,693
14th	Flushing-Main St	New York	60,252
15th	Chambers St/WTC/Park Place	New York	55,683
16th	South Station	Boston	54,388	Sum of MBTA and Amtrak
17th	42 St-Bryant Pk/5Av	New York	54,289
18th	74-Bway/Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av	New York	51,285
19th	14St/6 Av	New York	49,990
20th	7th/Metro Center	Los Angeles	48,829
21st	Embarcadero	San Francisco	47,643	Not including MUNI
22nd	Montegomery	San Francisco	47,569	Not including MUNI
23rd	Downtown Crossing	Boston	46,956
24th	Harvard	Boston	46,398
25th	Canal St	New York	44,362
26th	14 St/8 Av	New York	43,953
27th	Union	Washington DC	42,833	Sum of DC Metro and AMtrak
28th	Jamaica Center-Parsons-Archer	New York	42,261
29th	Lake/State	Chicago	42,058
30th	Clark/Lake	Chicago	41,786

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Why can you see bikini where women are obliged to wear robe-like dresses?

edition.cnn.com

It is an imitated example of "special economic zone" in China.
When a country want to be rich, what they need is to remove restrictions.
But, it's too difficult to change laws all over the country.
Then, the easiest way is to designate small area as the special place where most of the legal restrictions are not applied.

This example in Saudi Arabia is so rare in conservative Islamic countries that I'm afraid that it would be the target of Islamic fundamentalismists.

Sotetsu 20000 series train was transported to Kashiwadai Depot

The train has been manufactured for enabling Sotetsu to begin through service to Tokyu or JR after 2019. With conventional trains, it is impossible to run through these rail companies due to different signalling systems.

By the end of July, The fleet was manufactured
at Hitachi's Kasado Plant in Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi.
On August 1, it was transported from the plant to Atugi station's sidings.
At the rear end of the cars, Sou-nyan, the stuffed animal character of Sotetsu, was placed as if it was a train conductor.

On August 2, it ran through Sotetsu Line to store at Kashiwadai Depot.

It's impossible to see that, because it is strictly confined in train shed whose entrance is barred.

Why was it built?

How the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge changed China forever
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/01/architecture/nanjing-yangtze-river-bridge-revival/index.html

In unstable cultural revolution era, they built the long bridge by themselves. It's the first surprising thing for us. The second one is that there were(are?) pedestrians' lanes on such a huge bridge.
I wonder if there were people who walked on the bridge as a commutation route in daily life.

Why was the most grotesque popsicle made?

These popsicles are made from polluted water
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/31/design/sewage-popsicles-taiwan/index.html

We tend to think water pollution is far from our lives. So, it is difficult to encourage people to keep river clean.
But, if what we eat is replaced with polluted water, it's a big issue, and would give us strong impression.
Considering that, popsicles made of polluted water can enhance environmental mind of us.

Why are they cool?

The world's coolest nationalities: Where do you rank?
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/coolest-nationalities/index.html

This article includes 2 funny points. The one is that you can expect the coolest nationality at a glance of the top picture of the article, which shows samba dancers. Needless to say, the representation of Brasil.
The other one is that Japan, which boasts 'Cool Japan' ranks the 6th. So, it revealed that Japan is cool to an extent, if not the coolest one.

Why do they have to be doing research on monorails?

www.globalrailnews.com

'Skytrain' they say has already been in use for nearly 30 years.
It's Chiba Urban Monorail, which adopts the similar system.

In addition to it, another type of the monorail has already been opened in Chongqing, China. The monorail trains were manufactured by Japan's HITACHI and China's CRRC Changchun.
Based on its history, CRRC Sifang should have known how to manufacture that type of monorails.

I don't know why CRRC Sifang is stick to development of the conventional monorail system.