New railway links, flyovers, an underground railway, elevated walkways and sea transport have been planned.
The Taipei underground railway, for example, saw its budget rise more than fourfold during construction.
London's subway, the world's first underground railway network, first opened in 1863.
Protestants have been especially active in an "underground railway" that starts in North Korea, runs through northeastern China and ends in South Korea.
Two big projects launched five years ago to help the culture capital swing an underground railway and a glittering concert hall have failed to materialise.
Next January it will be 150 years since the first ever London Underground railway operated on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon.
It's the London Underground - the world's first underground railway.
That is what the experience of Sir Bernard Crossland, a safety expert who led the inquiry into a disastrous underground railway fire in London in 1987 which killed 31 people, suggests.
At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
Postal workers, firefighters, railway and underground employees are fighting their own battles.
Seats are available on most London Underground, London Overground and Docklands Light Railway (DLR) platforms, all trains have clearly marked priority seating next to the carriage doors, and audio and visual info is provided on most trains and platforms.
About 1, 200 shacks had been built on the land, which is crossed by a shallow underground fuel pipe, a power pylon and a railway line.
Yet it is just the highest profile in a string of big-ticket projects including a concert hall in Hamburg, railway tunnels in Munich and Leipzig, a subway line in Cologne and a Stuttgart underground train station that have been plagued by huge cost overruns and delays.
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