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Article #310Re: Metrocard Gripe
From: Alan Miles
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 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. Well I'll leave the question of homeless or mentally ill people aside. They're not pleasant, but they are ours. DC has them too, ev= en if they're tossed off the subway. Anyway, "efficient" is a nebulous term. I'd say the NYC subway is a better means of navigating New York than DC's is for navigating= the Distict. And it certainly serves a larger portion of the population. And it was even built without (massive) public subsidies= ! Efficient? New York! BTW, I've lived in both places. "Take Me Back to Manhattan...." Alan Miles
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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: Alan Miles <amiles@interport.net> Subject: Re: Metrocard Gripe Date: 1996/06/07 Message-ID: <4p8rvf$400@park.interport.net> X-Deja-AN: 158950433 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> <gfg0877-0606961714070001@news.nyu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: McKinsey & Company, Inc. x-url: news:gfg0877-0606961714070001@news.nyu.edu mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: nyc.transit,dc.general,misc.transport.urban-transit x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K)