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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:02 AM
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Subway Systems of the World.
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/index.php
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:17 AM
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1. Fascinating.
If anybody's interested in where I live - look at the London map. There's a line going out to the North-West which goes further out than the others. I'm very close to the end of that line.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:00 PM
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2. I had no idea that Atlanta had a subway system.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:52 PM
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15. I thought MARTA was all above ground
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 05:01 PM
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26. The San Diego Trolley has one underground station. SDSU.
Does that make it a "subway"?
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:19 PM
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3. Is it just me or
does Boston's look like a fire dancer?? :shrug:
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:22 PM
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4. Indeed. And Moscow looks like a spider.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:26 PM
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5. They don't have Baltimore's on there.
Its in to the lightrail system.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:28 PM
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6. I was wondering about that too.
Does Baltimore's system actually go underground?
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:47 PM
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33. Well here is the map . . .


It goes underground according to a report a saw on channel 2.
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:29 PM
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7. They're missing Rome, Italy
although its just a big ole X
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:32 PM
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8. The dude forgot the S-Bahn
Edited on Fri Sep-09-05 03:32 PM by Kellanved
So he missed most of the Berlin net. :grr:

http://www.s-bahn-berlin.de/pdf/s_bahn_netz.pdf
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:33 PM
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9. He explains why on the triple asterisk on the bottom
Edited on Fri Sep-09-05 03:34 PM by MadAsHellNewYorker
***This is the U-bahn. I spent €4.50 on a official Berlin public transit Stadtplan, and it still didn't include the full extent of the S-Bahn lines. So, the S-bahn doesn't count as a subway to me.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:35 PM
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11. lame excuse
" and it still didn't include the full extent of the S-Bahn lines. So, the S-bahn doesn't count as a subway to me."

He could have included the part covered by the map. It goes underground and it goes through the city. Sounds like a subway to me.
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:36 PM
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12. lol, its not my excuse!
:hi:
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:36 PM
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13. Lol! I know
:hi:

Saw it on his page and quoted from there :D
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 05:26 PM
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37. I don't think the S-bahn is a subway
Some people do, but I do not.

It's light rail, same as the U-bahn.

However! When they first started the BVG, the U-bahn was all underground and the S-bahn was all aboveground. Now there's S-bahn lines that run underground and U-bahn lines that run at least partly aboveground, like the first four stops on the U-2.

Add in the streetcars in what was East Berlin, the bus system, the M-bahn demonstration maglev line in the middle of town...Berlin has a very well-integrated mass transit system.

Shit, I need to get back there. I miss that place so much.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 05:39 PM
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38. well, I guess the case can be made
Edited on Mon Sep-12-05 05:46 PM by Kellanved
However, the U-bahn never was all underground, actually it started out almost entirely on elevated tracks.
Later, it was above ground in poor districts and underground in the richer ones.

The S-bahn started out as a connection to the nearby towns and cities; the case can be made that it is somewhat like the Metro North in NYC. I'd at least include the inner city ring-lines into the subway net, as those lines are entirely for inner-city transportation .






http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Bahn_Berlin
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Bahn_Berlin

See ya :hi:

Oh: the M-Line is no more; they refitted the line with normal tracks. On the other hand the west gets equipped with streetcars.
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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:35 PM
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10. They forgot Poland!!
Seriously, there's gotta be an urb in Poland w/ a subway.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:49 PM
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14. It's kinda funny that the LA system is on there.
One of my friends who's a train expert says that train goes nowhere. He's right.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:57 PM
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16. Hey, it's better than dealing with the freeways.
I used to use the subway all the time when I lived there--could go from Hollywood to downtown in a matter of minutes. The new gold line into Pasadena's pretty good, too.

For a young system, it ain't half bad.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:07 PM
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17. Wasnt there a subway system in LA during the1920's-40's?
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 05:15 PM
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27. I'm not sure--I know they had a streetcare/cablecar system. n/t
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 07:08 PM
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30. Los Angeles had streetcar lines only, the Red Cars
General Motors bought them up and put them out of business.
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:33 PM
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18. BART isn't really a subway
It's a regional transport system, designed to move people between cities, not through them. The fact that a short stretch of the track through San Francisco is under ground doesn't make it a subway. A lot of people use BART to get from SF to Oakland, Fremont, or SFO, but very few use it to move around the city (why would you...it only has a couple of stops and is stupidly expensive when compared to the MUNI bus system).

It's not a subway, it's an electric railroad for commuters.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:36 PM
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19. I like Brussels. It's cute.
;-)
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:38 PM
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20. Trivia: What city had the 1st subway system in the US?
Any takers?
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:43 PM
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22. Lompoc
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:46 PM
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24. Hehe! Nice try but incorrect sir!
NEXT...
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 05:32 PM
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28. No takers?
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 11:44 PM
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32. Boston nt
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 03:35 AM
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36. DING DING DING! We have a winner.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:39 PM
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21. I've only been on Washington's Green Line
Edited on Fri Sep-09-05 04:40 PM by ih8thegop
I was there a few years ago. It's the line that goes to the southeast, in about the 4:00 position.
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Clintmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:46 PM
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23. They forgot the subway in Rome, Italy!
:rofl:
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 04:49 PM
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25. Tokyo: I think the map is out of date
Edited on Fri Sep-09-05 04:50 PM by Lydia Leftcoast
In any case, some of those subway lines emerge from their tunnels and continue way into the suburbs as surface trains.

Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya, Yokohama, and Sapporo also have subways.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 07:06 PM
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29. I've been on: Moscow, Paris, London, N.Y. , D.C. Boston and ...
watched LA's being built when I was there. Never rode it, because it didn't go anywhere.

Moscow moves 13 million people a day, the most impressive. They now use subway tickets that are vitually identical to the ones used on the Metro in DC. I still have mine, somewheres.

Paris's Metro was the most fun.
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NYdemocrat089 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 08:03 PM
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31. I've only been on the DC and Barcelona subways.
The DC Metro was very nice (at least I thought so). I found it very easy to get around on. Barcelona's was a little more complicated but it was nice aswell. It took me about 20 minutes to ride from the town I was living in to the port.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 12:07 AM
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34. The traffic cams for NYC are cool.
http://webcam.mta.info/mta3/index.jsp
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Dispatcher45 Donating Member (15 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 03:07 AM
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35. Maps of world subway systems
Can be found here -

http://urbanrail.net/
http://www.subways.net/
http://www.reed.edu/~reyn/transport.html

And if your interested in subways and mass transit, there's even a blog devoted to that subject -

http://thirdrail.smorgasblog.com/

Dispatcher 45
Democratic railfan
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