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Article #289Re: Metrocard Gripe
From: Jeremy M. Posner
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4p5fmj$29t@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, Thrawn
<Thrawn@Chimera.Ship> wrote:
> NYC subways efficient? Get real. Smelly? No argument there. Also, ever
> notice a larger portion of people on those subways who are street
> urchins and essentially live on the NYC subway (because it's never
> closed)? Since the DC system closes at midnight, you're much less likely
> to have to deal with one of those disgusting derelicts while riding.
The system closing at midnight is an advantage? How about having a
real public transportation system that's open when people need to go
places? Living in NYC, I've never had to worry about getting home before
the trains stop, while when I visited DC my friends and I had to
constantly worry about how we would get home after midnight...
-JMP
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112ce4,bff7d4d41bac2833 X-Google-Attributes: gid112ce4,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,ba84b781c3041450 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca13,bff7d4d41bac2833 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca13,public From: jposner@panix.com (Jeremy M. Posner) Subject: Re: Metrocard Gripe Date: 1996/06/08 Message-ID: <jposner-0806961534530001@jposner.dialup.access.net> X-Deja-AN: 159168763 references: <4obg0f$8u9@freenet-news.carleton.ca> <4ocdre$cg@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> <4ojkgk$l4r@freenet-news.carleton.ca> <31B0BB8D.37B0@intr.net> <4p3de7$9ha@freenet-news.carleton.ca> <4p3t9d$4eb@news4.digex.net> <4p5fmj$29t@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC newsgroups: nyc.transit,dc.general,misc.transport.urban-transit