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TOWERING MEGAPOLIS Watch the London episode on Megacities tonight at 9 p.m.
Did you know that Mumbai's trains carry six million people every day, which is equivalent to the entire population of Israel? Or that 75 per cent of New Yorkers don't own cars? Or that the traffic in London is so congested that it moves at only 12 kph — the same speed it averaged 100 years ago? Sure makes us feel decidedly better as we wait forever for snarls to clear!
One can learn all this and more on National Geographic's hot new eight-part series, Megacities, where eight iconic metropolises — Mumbai, Las Vegas, Mexico City, Hong Kong, London, Paris and Sao Paulo — are under the scanner as Nat Geo attempts to crack what makes the cities tick.
Rajesh Sheshadri, Vice President Marketing, who was present at the preview, said: "Mumbai's selection has nothing to do with Indianisation of content. We selected cities based on the scale of activity and the single element that keeps the city alive."
So for Mumbai it is the local trains, for New York the subways, for London, disaster management and Paris, the sewage tunnels where a million cubic meters of waste flows daily.
Then there is Mexico City and its use of cutting edge technology to build in safety considering it is in one of the world's most earthquake-prone spots, the technical prowess Hong Kong revels in and Sao Paulo's intelligent recycling of trash.
The show premiered Sunday with Mumbai and will air an episode on weeknights at 9 p.m. till February 6.
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