As anyone who knows me well can attest, I love transportation. I love subways, trains, ferries, boats, it's all good. The Beijing subway is still pretty small (there are currently only three lines, though that will triple by 2010), but when it's convenient it's great. Like Beijing's busses, getting on and off is quite an experience though. It's most easily compared to getting on to the 30-Stockton in San Francisco's Chinatown where everyone and their mothers (literally) push to get on first. The difference is that in China it's not just little old Cantonese ladies, literally everyone does this no matter how much longer it actually makes things take. If you want to get off, you need to line up before your stop to push your way out, or you'll never leave.
EAP China! Robert Klein.