Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague and a number of smaller cities in the west of the country are expanding towards each other to the extent that the entire area is sometimes denoted as a single metropole known as Randstad.
Rotterdam was one of the European Culture Capitals of 2001.
Most important for the port ofRotterdam are the petrochemical industry and general cargo transhipment handlings.
Moscow's metrostations are a heritage of the socialist regime, originally intended to be 'palaces for the people'.
Besides Moscow, many metrostations in other cities of the former Soviet Union are of similar grandeur.
Like other metro systems in the former Soviet Union, the stations have been built using exquisite materials and a few are decorated with socialist-style reliefs.
This is an alphabetical listof cities worldwide that have a rapid transit system, or a light-rail system with some elements of rapid transit.
See also: Listof suburban and commuter rail systems, listof airport circulators, Listof light-rail transit systems, Listof town tramway (urban tramway, streetcar) systems, Listof cities with trolleybuses, Listof cities that no longer have trolleybuses.
It was electrified in the early 1980s, and over 95% of services on its track are now metro-like passenger service within Hong Kong's territories.
In other cases, metros have gradually evolved from tram or rail lines, so it is often difficult to tell the actual length or date of inauguration of a metro.
One reason is that definitions of what a metro is may vary according to who you ask (a popular definition is here).
List provided by Jordi Serradell as of 12 April 2006.
That will include the stations in Nijmegen and Zwolle, based on the agreement with the public transportation company NS Stations, which controls the majority of intercity and commuter lines in the Netherlands.
In Rotterdam, Metro competed for the contract against Spits, published by the morning daily De Telegraaf.
Metro in Holland has signed a contract with Rotterdam Public Transport Company (RET).
Washington DC (The Metro, operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and the Congressional Subway) – Listof Washington metrostations
Montreal, Canada (the metro or mtro) – Listof Montreal metrostations
Moscow metrostations Remarkable site of Bee Flowers (to whom thanks); these station photographs are so striking that they are included here in spite of not being maps.
Counting "correspondence" stations doubly (a reasonable reflection of complexity and labor; these provide transfer to Cercanías [local trains] or to Line 10), there are 36 elegant new stations equipped with elevators, escalators, and a variety of safety features.
Madrid (official Metro de Madrid; access to a PDF map is immediate; select Plano from the top-of-page menu)
The RET, the Rotterdam public transport company, therefore intends to increase camera surveillance on the metrostations.
Sony is supplying a large proportion of the approximately 1000 surveillance cameras, which will come into operation at the beginning of 2002 to watch over the safety of the passengers and RET personnel at nearly 50 underground stations.
Wendy van Hogerhuis (Emaco Consultancy) is in charge of the redesign of the metro management organisation, as it is called.
During business-hours stations are guarded by mobile teams of 2 guards who also check the tickets of the passengers while they're on the train.
Tijdens de bouw van de oost west metrolijn in rotterdam - ergens in de jaren 80 - ben ik samen met een vriend een keer van station coolhaven tot station blaak gelopen.
Er is een urban legend in de Amsterdamse graff-scene waarin een bepaalde groep spuiters uit midden jaren ยด80 de atoomschuilkelder onder de Amsterdamse metro binnen is gegaan door het ontvreemden van een sleutel uit een GVB gebouw.
Generating stations are as much a part of life today as seal-oil lamps and dog sleds were a half-century ago.
The story isn't too far-fetched though; the CBC operates dozens of Inuit radio stations through it's Northern Service, and the record shows that they've had their fair share of strikes over the years.
Canada Info notes that "In 1637, Father Jean de Brébeuf drew up a listof instructions for Jesuit missionaries destined to work among the Huron." The list is very lovely, I think.
There are 39 cities on this list: Athens, Baku, Berlin, Bilbao, Boston, Brussels, Genoa, Hanover, Hong Kong, Kiev, Lille, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Moscow, Munich, Naples, Newcastle, New York, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nuremberg, Paris, Prague, Pyongyang, Rhine-Ruhr, Rotterdam, Santiago de Chile, Singapore, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Tashkent, Tehran, Tokyo, Toronto, Valencia, Vienna, Washington, Zurich.
I suggest you look to these beautiful public transit stations around the world: http://mic-ro.com/metro/metroart.html
A world class city like Chicago deserves world class transit stations.
One metro-line that isn't really art, but more historic is one of the metro's in Budapest where the stations look exactly like when they were built in 1896.
Rotterdam also earns a place on that list, but (of course) not Amsterdam.
There's the Nieuwmarkt station, where there's some art to reference the deportation of Jews in the second world war, and there's some letter graffiti on the Waterloo- and the Wibaut station, but that's it (Edit : I'm forgetting the Egyptian hieroglyphs on the entrance to the Waterloo station near the botanic garden).
Montreal metro : This is a listof the metrostations on the four lines of the metro system of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Rotterdam, the largest port city of the Netherlands, is to hold a large-scale disaster exercise in one of its metrostations, reported local newspaper Trouw.
The Comfort Hotel Bastille is a charming tourist class property located 12 miles from the Orly International Airport in the city's pretty 11th dsitrict; and is within walking distance of several convenient MetroStations which offer easy access to all par...
There are 39 cities on this list: Athens, Baku, Berlin, Bilbao, Boston, Brussels, Genoa, Hanover, Hong Kong, Kiev, Lille, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Moscow, Munich, Naples, Newcastle, New York, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nuremberg, Paris, Prague, Pyongyang, Rhine-Ruhr, Rotterdam, Santiago de Chile, Singapore, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Tashkent, Tehran, Tokyo, Toronto, Valencia, Vienna, Washington, Zurich.
I suggest you look to these beautiful public transit stations around the world: http://mic-ro.com/metro/metroart.html
If we HAD to pick a Chicago station with the greatest architecture, which would it be?
Wizzle - also selling train tickets (they are typically at small stations which have no separate ticket window or counter; an exception is Rotterdam, with a Wizzle at the back side of the station, while separate ticket windows are at the front side only).
London, England - Listof London railway stations
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