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Article #202Re: "The Metro is no subway"
From: Robert Coe
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00
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On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 19:23:56 -0500, jwhitesi@concentric.net (John Whiteside) wrote: : The line between "commuter train" and "subway" isn't quite so sharp. : What would you call Boston's Red Line, which moves lots of people in : and out of inner-city neighborhoods of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville : all day long, every ten minutes, but also has big parking garages in : Cambridge, Braintree, and Quincy for commuters? One reason we don't consider the Red Line a commuter train is that we also *have* an extensive (and growing) network of commuter trains. :^) For example, I take a commuter train from Lincoln (a town in the western suburbs) to Porter Square, then the Red Line subway to my job in Central Square. Washington has commuter trains too, of course, but on nowhere near the scale of the system in Boston. -- ___ _ - Bob /__) _ / / ) _ _ (_/__) (_)_(_) (___(_)_(/_____________________________________ bob@1776.COM Robert K. Coe ** 14 Churchill St, Sudbury, MA 01776-2120 USA ** 508-443-3265
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112ce4,bff7d4d41bac2833 X-Google-Attributes: gid112ce4,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca13,bff7d4d41bac2833 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca13,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,ba84b781c3041450 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) Subject: Re: "The Metro is no subway" Date: 1996/07/04 Message-ID: <31dbd16e.301417195@News.TIAC.NET> X-Deja-AN: 163748890 references: <smiths-2806961337240001@smiths.admin.upenn.edu> <4r1ri1$6st@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> <jwhitesi-2906962013400001@cnc80257.concentric.net> <4r5up7$2ng@news3.digex.net> <jwhitesi-3006961923560001@cnc098033.concentric.net> organization: 1776 Enterprises; Sudbury, Massachusetts newsgroups: nyc.transit,dc.general,misc.transport.urban-transit