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> [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.)
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