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Discovering the city via metro

Panama City's metro is less than two years old.

Panama City, Panama is the latest place I have been using the metro. It is especially easy here with just one metro line so far, although expansion is planned. At 35 cents US per ride with a rechargeable card it has to be one of the cheapest metro services in the world.
  
As a big fan of public transport, I especially like a metro system because, while you need to know where to get off, the service will stop at every station making for easier navigation than with buses.

 A metro station in Montreal, Canada, outside and inside. 

A metro runs totally or partly underground.

A metro entrance in Madrid, Spain.

Going back to the surface in Lisbon, Portugal, left, and Panama City, below.

There is often a stretch of line above ground.

The line runs at ground level between 6 of 14 Panama City stations.

In Sydney, Australia stunning vistas open at the Circular Quay platform.

Having opened in April 2014, Panama City's metro is new and clean and apparently safe, with a police presence in each station. It is to be hoped that in time art will be added as in other cities. 

Decorative walls of station platforms in Lisbon, left, and London, England, below.