Re: Metrocard Gripe

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From: Richard Looney
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00

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Jason Mayfield (triathln@cais3.cais.com) wrote:
>> Rex (rex@access.digex.net) wrote:

>> : 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.

>> Wrong again Rex.  Have you ever been on a really buried and convoluted
>> subway?  

Obviously not - Rex'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.

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From: rlooney@csc.com (Richard Looney)
Subject: Re: Metrocard Gripe
Date: 1996/06/06
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