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deep dives into trains, transit and politics (usually outside US). Click to read S(ubstack)-Bahn, by S.Y. Lee, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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31 from 18 Jan 2022 to 17 Oct 2026
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2026 5

  1. How Bay Area public transit was born: 1945-1957
  2. Translating poems on Seoul Metro's platform screen doors
  3. Seoul's Once and Future Mayor
  4. How Medellín Built a Metro Amid Bloodshed
  5. A Tour in Search for the Soul of Seoul

2025 6

  1. How Seoul Metro Installed Platform Screen Doors Everywhere
  2. Next Stop for S(ubstack)-Bahn
  3. Urban Paradise Lost?: The History of Seoul's Only Planned City
  4. How France Saved its Public Transit from Catastrophe
  5. One Bullet, Two Volts: How Seoul's Metro Was Born
  6. End of the line: Transit thoughts in an uncertain America

2024 4

  1. Aura of Success: The First Years of Japan's Privatized National Railways
  2. Train-Surfing: A Global Look
  3. The Rise and Fall of Japan's National Public Railway Labor Unions
  4. The Death and Privatization of Japanese National Railways (Part 2, 1982-1987)

2023 5

  1. The Assassination of HS2 by the Coward Rishi Sunak
  2. Kyiv Metro vs the World: An Exploration
  3. Five Transit Lessons from a Eurotrip
  4. The Global Rise of the Militarizing Metro
  5. Seoul Metro's Ugly War with Disabled Protesters Enters Its Third Year

2022 11

  1. The Death and Privatization of Japanese National Railways (Part 1, 1949-1982)
  2. How American Occupiers Helped Doom Japan's National Public Railways
  3. Downtown Los Angeles, 21st Century: A Personal, Urban History
  4. The Soldier Who Defended Melbourne's Trams
  5. A Bridge Too Far: Where Japan's National Private Railways Is Failing
  6. Seoul Metro's Long, Open, Ugly War Against Disabled Protesters
  7. How BART on the Golden Gate Bridge Died: A New History
  8. How Japan Saved Tokyo's Rail Network from Collapse (Part 2, 1982-Now)
  9. How Japan Saved Tokyo's Rail Network from Collapse (Part 1, 1945-1982)
  10. "Hell Line": Lessons from Seoul's controversial privatized subway line
  11. Coming soon