Re: Metrocard Gripe

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From: Jason Mayfield
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00

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Mark Brader (msb@sq.com) wrote:

: 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.)

When I was living in Moscow we were near the Yugo-Zapadnaya station, which
had a series of three escalators to reach bottom.  None of them were
extraordinary, but it was rumoured to be one of the world's deepest
stations.  I just remember it took at least five minutes to get down there
from street level.

--
Jason Mayfield
Arlington, VA
http://dufus.westga.edu/~zooropa
79 Days Until Ironman Canada

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