The Bucharest Metro (Romanian: Metroul București) is an underground urban railway network that serves the capital of Romania, Bucharest. The network is run by Metrorex. It is one of the most accessed systems of the Bucharest public transport network with a ridership of 177.23 million passengers in 2010 (averaging out at 485,000 passengers per day). In total, the network is 69.25 km long and has 51 stations.
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