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In article <4r5up7$2ng@news3.digex.net>, rex@access.digex.net wrote:

> Arlington Cemetary has a station??

You  might have noticed that there's a lot of tourist traffic in DC, and
it's much better to have those folks riding around on trains than trying
to drive all over the place. Oh, and when was the last time you were at
the fabulous JFK or LaGuardia subway stops in New York? Talk about an
oversight...

> IMHO, the station placement was made to help convenience tourists and
> commuters, and inner city stops were merely an afterthought.  HUGE
> parking lots at subway stations?  

That's quite common. Many of the terminal stations of the lines in Boston
have this. I'm sure other cities have similar setups. 

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? 

If I take Metro from Dupont Circle to the job I haven't found yet
downtown, it sure seems like riding a subway.

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