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smiths@pobox.upenn.edu (Exile on Market Street) wrote:

>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?

A commuter train is what it more closely resembles than a true subway.
NYCTA doesn't run subway trains outside of NYC city limts.

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

>New York = Good
>Not-New York = Bad

Then, by all means, add me to the list of people who agree with Jason
on that eveluation.

>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.

A decent, efficient transit system is one of the things that I like
most about NY and least about DC.

Sure, DC's stations are much cleaner, but I would rather get where I
am going.  I don't live in a subway station, and I like to spend as
little time in them as possible.

I still don't understand why it is necessary for DC to have cavernous
stations that are much higher and wider than necessary.  Spend the
extra money on more trains (and run them 24 hours), we don't need
palacial taj-mahal stations at every stop.  Too much emphasis on
asthetics, to little on actual transportation.



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