Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, upon first arriving in Beijing to attend the 2008 Olympic Games, made a riding tour of the newly built-out Beijing Subway System one of his first orders of business.
The stations and trains are truly a marvel to behold; safe, clean and efficient; with 80 percent of the system's capacity completed subsequent to the Games being awarded to Beijing in 2001. Might Daley have been foreshadowing his own objectives for Chicago's elevated and subterranean rail systems, should the City prevail in its own bid to win the 2016 Summer Games?
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