"The Metro is no subway" (was Re: Malls at subway stations (Pentagon City/Silver Spring))

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From: Exile on Market Street
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00

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In article <31d325b2.77962412@News.TIAC.NET>, bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) wrote:

[in response to Jason's "the DC Metro is no subway" comment]
> So have I, and it resembles a subway more than it does anything else
> that I can think of offhand.  If it's not a subway, what the devil is
> it?

Just a reminder -- Jason has a simple, highly efficient equation for
evaluating any transit facility:

New York = Good
Not-New York = Bad

I'm not sure that he recognizes degrees of New Yorkishness (e.g., on a
scale of 0 to 10 where 10 is perfect New York, I'd say the MBTA is a 3 and
SEPTA a 5).

In any case, the Washington Metro has almost no New York character to it. 
Hence his assertion.

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From: smiths@pobox.upenn.edu (Exile on Market Street)
Subject: "The Metro is no subway" (was Re: Malls at subway stations (Pentagon City/Silver Spring))
Date: 1996/06/28
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