LONDON — This city’s subway system — the Underground or the Tube, they variously call it — is simply enormous. Millions of people use it every day.

In all, it is 400 km in length — 10 times the length of the City of Toronto, essentially, from east to west. It serves nearly 300 stations, across more than a dozen lines — while Toronto has four, connecting with just 75 or so stations.

London’s underground dwarfs Toronto’s subway system. Depending on how you measure it, it is 400% to 500% bigger.

And in all of 2025 so far for every million rides taken on London’s Underground? There were just 20.7 crimes committed. The majority of them are thefts and “anti-social behaviour.”

Toronto? Between 2016 and 2024, the number of crimes happening on Toronto’s transit system — serious crimes like atte

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