Spend even one day in Madrid, and you’re likely to take public transportation at least once.  Madrid has a world-class system of buses, metrorail, and light-rail suburban trains. The metro system is celebrating 100 years in 2019, and the city has museums and exhibitions of original and historic metro cars throughout the city.  The public transport system is both a blessing and a vital necessity in a large city like Madrid. But for all its modernity and constant improvements, the metro has at least one great problem: rush hour.  The Sol metro station in the center of the city sees at least 100,000 people go through PER HOUR.  But one thing I’ve learned in five years is how to push myself into the solid throng of bodies, so that I get a few inches of space.

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