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In <1996Jun6.175119.21331@sq.com> msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) writes: 
>
>> [A previous poster]'s world seems limited to the NYC-DC axis. Else
he 
>> wouldn't be so challenged by the DC Metro system's
fare-based-on-distance 
>> scheme: the subways of San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, London, etc all
work 
>> that way.
>
>No, actually, the Paris subway is flat fare.  They do charge fare by
>distance for city buses there, and on RER trains (commuter trains
doubling
>as express subways) when you travel outside the city.
>
>Speaking of worlds limited to the NYC-DC axis, is it false that the DC
>subway system includes the world's longest escalator.  There are
several
>longer ones elsewhere, mostly in the subways of the former Soviet
Union.
>(Details tend to be fragmentary, with different sources giving
different
>ones as the longest.)
>-- 
>Mark Brader              "I always pass on good advice.  It's the only
thing
>msb@sq.com                 to do with it.  It is never any use to
oneself."
>SoftQuad Inc., Toronto       -- Lord Goring  (Oscar Wilde: An Ideal
Husband)
>
>My text in this article is in the public domain.

I've heard that an outdoor escalator in Hong Kong is by far the longest
in the world.  It's sort of a transit device in its own right, used to
move pedestrians up a steep slope.