Re: Metrocard Gripe

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From: Alan Miles
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00

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dsutch@cais.cais.com (Dennis A. Sutch) wrote:
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>>Give me the efficient, under the street (but smelly), NYC subways,
>>over the huge manmade caverns, with escalators to the center of the
>>earth, METRO.  Metrorail is not really a subway system anyway, it is a
>>commuter train.
>
>Yes.  But leave the crime.

Excuse me?  Statistically the New York subway is far safer than New York 
streets, which are safer than the streets in the District of Columbia.  
I'm not sure about the DC subway, but I'd bet it's comparable or worse 
than the MTA.

The New York Subway has shortcomings, for sure, but crime ain't one.

Alan Miles

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Subject: Re: Metrocard Gripe
Date: 1996/06/07
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