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Rapid transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greenbelt station, the terminus of the Green line on the Washington Metro, is a typical example of the entrance concourse of a metro station. In London, the Tower Subway provided a crossing under the River Thames using a tiny cable car for the 410-m journey; the line closed in a matter of months and the tunnel was given over to pedestrians, later becoming a utility conduit. The oldest subway in the Southern Hemisphere opened in 1913 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is also the oldest one in Latin America and the whole Spanish-speaking world. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Subway   (5313 words)

Getting Around NYC By Subway Subways traverse Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx; Staten Island is served by the Staten Island Railway, with connections to the Staten Island Ferry from the St. George station. Subway Entrances: Subway entrances in New York are usually found on street corners, marked with a staircase descending to the station. Where to Get a MetroCard: There are 3,500 MetroCard merchants throughout the city including NYC's Official Visitor Information Center and many subway stations and hotels. www.nycvisit.com /content/index.cfm?pagePkey=530   (879 words)

Metro Arts and Architecture - Metro Bits - mic-ro.co(s)m Stockholm's subway is known as the world's longest art gallery because works of art have been integrated in almost every station since the 1950s [tunnelbana.com]. Most subway systems are rather dull from an aesthetic point of view (though even those systems may have a handful of stations a little better than the average). Parque station symbolizes the achievements of the Portuguese discoverers [inscrire.com]. mic-ro.com /metro/metroart.html   (3624 words)

Subway as Intermediary Public Space The subway stations serve as points of reference, as destinations within the city are viewed in relationship to the nearest station. Even in most of the cases where commercial uses were located in the subway, they were located within the entrance, where they became an extension of the street wall's commercial space, while the controlled, that is separated, area that represented the actual station remained unencumbered by commerce. Because of the importance of the subway as a primary means of transportation, especially within Manhattan, it is one of the principal elements in the mental maps New Yorkers develop of the city. www.urbanresidue.com /theory/subway.html   (4725 words)

Straphangers Campaign Guide to NYC Subway Stations Our goal was to create a measure by which riders’ opinions of the subway station passenger environment could be quantified–both by specific environmental indicator and in the aggregate. We eliminated several of the most-used subway stations from our poll because these were undergoing major renovation, such as the Times Square, Grand Central, and Main Street Flushing stations. Subway riders were surveyed on the following aspects of the station environment were survey: www.straphangers.org /stationsguide/methodology.html   (693 words)

Subway Stations All parts of the subway where exposed to public sight shall therefore be designed with a view to the beauty of their appearance, as well as to their efficiency. One of the strangest station belonged to the BMT. While the other IRT stations were spartan they did have some ornamental molding and glazed tiles and each had a small panel with a picture. xellex.freehomepage.com /Subway/page3.html   (1162 words)

Transit Toronto - Content: Toronto's Lost Subway Stations Toronto now has four underground streetcar stations: the streetcar-to-subway interchanges at Union, Spadina and St. Clair West and a streetcar-only underground station beneath Bay Street at Queen's Quay. Lower Bay station is far better known to Torontonians, as it is a station that actually saw passengers for the early part of its existence before being abandoned. A connection to the west of St. George Station was easily accomplished, and to complete the wye, tracks were built northeast from a junction just north of Museum Station to a station beneath Bay Station on the Bloor Line, before linking up with the Bloor tracks just west of Yonge Station. transit.toronto.on.ca /subway/5006.shtml   (2119 words)

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea Subway stations are going out of their way to serve the public by lending passengers umbrellas on rainy days. Seoul Metropolitan Subway Corporation says it will extend its umbrella-lending service to 115 subway stations of Line No. 1 to 4 with the help of local churches. Kang Seon-hui, a spokesman for the corporation, said, ¡°We put 1,000 umbrellas in the Seoul Educational University station, where there is a lot of floating population, but we have only 200 left since so many people just took them.¡± Kang urged passengers to show mature citizenship by returning umbrellas so other people can use them. feeds.southkoreanews.net /?rid=8a35833208f5e015&...   (162 words)

2Bangkok.com - The Bangkok Subway The reason for the subway being out of order on Sunday, February 19: the debris from a leftover pen crushed by the subway wheels jamming the signal box and causing MRTA to temporarily stop the service at Chatuchak Station. The Bangkok subway is similar to the one in Singapore with doors along the platform to save on air-conditioning, prevent accidents and suicides, and stop hazardous chemicals from easily circulating through the system in the event of a terrorist attack. The stations are 20 meters deep, about 18-25 meters wide and 150-200 meters long, depending upon location. 2bangkok.com /2bangkok/Subway/index.shtml   (3119 words)

Problem D - Subway n is the number of important places in the city that must have a subway station nearby, and d is the maximum distance allowed between an important place and a subway station. For each data set, output a single integer on a line by itself: the minimum number of subway lines needed to make sure all important places in the city is at a distance of at most d from a subway station. You have been given the coordinates of important places in the city which must lie close to a subway station (possibly the central station). acm.uva.es /p/v106/10691.html   (303 words)

Infiltration: Exploring Toronto's Subway Stations and Tunnels Downsview station was constructed in 1996, and it is the prettiest station in Toronto. Kennedy station is fairly awesome; a metal ladders leads up over the A.P. (authorized personnel) office to a series of metal catwalks linked by stairs and ladders, eventually leading through some cement air ducts to a grate at street level. Museum is one of the least used stations, and the gates are not monitored at all, so it didn't take much effort for my two comrades and I to scurry beyond the gates and into the tunnels. www.infiltration.org /subway.htm   (3849 words)

Abandoned New York subway stations - Cyburbia Forums Joseph Brennan's photos of abandoned New York subway stations -- from a never-completed Grand Central Station platform built in 1918 to the ruins of the stop underneath the World Trade Center -- will wow urban historians and urban explorers alike. Stations partly built when the system was under construction, but never actually opened because it was realized that traffic would probably be low for a very long time (Bull and Bush in London, Haxo and some others in Paris). There is already an underground society that lives within the sewers and abandoned subway lines of NY. www.cyburbia.org /forums/showthread.php?p=196870#post196870   (1652 words)

Straphangers Campaign Guide to NYC Subway Stations In the long-run, building a full-length Second Avenue subway is critical to relieving crowding at the 51st Street and Lexington Avenue subway station, as well as others on the Lexington line. There have also been some disasters, such as poor planning, cost and schedule overruns, and inadequate financing that until recently had long delayed important projects, such as the rehabilitation of the Times Square subway station and the Atlantic Terminal subway complex. The station is dangerously overcrowded, especially for riders transferring from the E and F trains to the 6 line. www.straphangers.org /stationsguide/recommendations.html   (1335 words)

weird After 1931 the station's mosaic signs were amended to indicate the nearby bridge; you can tell the bridge was built with a walkway since it's referred to from a subway station. It's one of the few stations with an out-of-station transfer: Metrocards are programmed to recognize the tunstiles at the 45th Road/Court House station, which you have to walk a few yards along the street to access. Stations along this line were among the last to get flourescent lighting, which didn't arive until the early 1980s. www.forgotten-ny.com /SUBWAYS/weirdstations/crazytrain.html   (2274 words)

The New York City Subway System While minor theft and homelessness still abound, the subway is a much better place than was predicted back in the financially troubled days of the city. The hot and dingy subway system of the 1970's has been completely renovated into a safe, convenient and comfortable mode of transportation between nearly all areas of New York City. The New York City subway system is one of the most efficient people transports in the entire world. www.ny.com /transportation/subways   (228 words)

Travel and Transport/Trucks, Trains & Buses/Most Subway Stations In addition to the 277 stations situated underground, 153 rest on elevated structures, 29 are built on embankments and nine lie in "open cuts" (trench-like depressions below street level). The MTA New York City Transit has 468 stations in a network covering 370 km (230 miles). The railway first opened on October 27, 1904, and serves an estimated 5.1 million passengers per day, or 1.86 billion per year. guinnessworldrecords.com /gwr5/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=43822   (88 words)

2Bangkok.com Forum - First look at the subway stations On "The Bangkok Subway" page http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/Subway/, the link "Subway station symbols", right between Silom and Rama IX symbols, is broken. For the case of Bangsue, the subway gate is near the Platform for Southern Railway, No. 52 BMTA Bus terminal and Siam Cement PCL which is NOT far from the main platform of Bangsue Junction. You can see that subway gate as a new annex of Hua Lamphong on the left side of Hua Lamphong whcih used to be the parking lot. www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=155   (799 words)

2Bangkok.com Forum - Distances between subway stations We have read many figures about the subway and also details about the station designs, sizes, depths etc. Of course this is not an exact representation of the distances between stations as the speed may not be constant, e.g. That again, at a total length of 20 km, makes an average speed of 35 km/h (including stops), as stated in the subway specs (and 45 km/h for the time the train is actually in motion). www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=235   (446 words)

New York Daily News - Home - They eyed subway stations subway station and one of the 42nd St. stations. Two wanna-be terrorists who cops say plotted to bomb the bustling Herald Square subway station also had their eye on several other targets, including the Verrazano Bridge, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday. The complaint said that after the Herald Square station was cased, the informant told Siraj and El Shafay "the 'Brotherhood' had approved their mission" and wanted them to place the bombs in two concealed knapsacks. www.nydailynews.com /front/story/226973p-194862c.html   (731 words)

The IRT: First Stations Take note of your surroundings next time you are in the subway; many stations have changed little, many have witnessed dramatic changes, four are not even open anymore. In addition, for several stations, including City Hall, there are photographs that I have taken within the last five years. During all stages of construction, from 1900 to opening day on October 27, 1904, photographs were taken to record the progress of the new subway. wt.mit.edu /Subway/Archives/Project.html   (263 words)

Tokyo: Tokyo Subway In the subways, there are folks who would seem to be down on their luck, sleeping or coalescing down here where it's warm. Most of my time on the subway was spent sitting next to people who had their head tilted down and their eyes shut - if I remeber correctly, people in America are generally more carefuly to keep an eye on the world around him. It wouldn't be unusual to see a young woman travelling alone on the subway, asleep in her seat. www.links.net /vita/trip/japan/subway   (1024 words)

Disparity Seen in State of Subway Stations In Poorest Vs. Well-to-Do Neighborhoods - June 21, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY Newspaper Subway platforms and stations in the city's poorest neighborhoods are not kept up as well as those in more well-to-do sections of the city, according to a City Council investigation to be released today. Disparity Seen in State of Subway Stations In Poorest Vs. Well-to-Do Neighborhoods - June 21, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY Newspaper Disparity Seen in State of Subway Stations In Poorest Vs. Well-to-Do Neighborhoods www.nysun.com /article/15811   (189 words)

For sale: NYC subway sponsorship - Jul. 27, 2004 The paper said sponsorships could range from renaming historic stations to attaching corporate names to future building projects, such as a proposed new subway line underneath the city's Second Avenue. "To be honest with you, most people don't have good thoughts about it (sponsoring a subway station) at all," said William Chipps, senior editor of IEG Sponsorship Report. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - New York's transit agency is considering selling corporate sponsorships to the city's subway stations, bus lines, bridges and tunnels, according to a published report. money.cnn.com /2004/07/27/news/economy/nyc_subway   (260 words)

Abandoned Stations Many stations of the New York City subway system have fallen into disuse or have been abandoned, no longer used by the Transit Authority for their original purpose: serving passengers. Some stations are fully abandoned, rotting away and seen only from passing trains. This site is not affiliated with any transit agency or provider. www.nycsubway.org /abandsta.html   (79 words)

The Campaign for Safer Subway Stations In light of this and other recent crimes, as well as a long history of crimes: sexual assaults and even deaths of women at subway stations, the Campaign for Safer Subway Stations is being launched. In the very early morning of Monday, January 29, 2001, an Asian American woman was raped and beaten at the Canal Street Station of the #6/N/R trains. Make your voice heard, be part of the solution, and help prevent subway crime in New York City! csssny.tripod.com   (205 words)

Subways / Transport Zürich (official VZB Züri-Linie; thanks to Arthur Glasfeld; several underground stations, according to Glasfeld and to Alan Hogenauer; thanks to Frederick König for VZB address update and the elaboration: "There is no subway in Zürich but the tramway has three underground-stops which were planned for a subway system. 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. Moscow metro stations 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. www.reed.edu /~reyn/transport.html   (6590 words)

NewsFromRussia.Com Toronto subway stations closed after bomb threat A bomb threat led police to briefly close several subway stations in Toronto More details... Officers halted trains running through 18 stations near the city's center for nearly an hour and scoured several locations for explosives after receiving the threat. The threat Thursday came exactly one week after the second series of bombings in London's subway system. newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/07/28/60803.html   (1301 words)

WHDH-TV - Boston - MBTA Banning Electric Music Equipment, Horns In Subway Stations BOSTON -- Electronic music equipment and horns soon will be banned in Boston-area subway stations, because the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority says nonacoustic music could drown out important messages on the public address system. Under the new Subway Performers Program Policy that goes into effect Dec. 1, performers must be "neat in appearance," with "proper clothing," have photo identification badges on display at all times -- and pay $25 for an annual performance permit, which formerly was free. Transit authorities in London, New York, Toronto and Atlanta appear to allow saxophones and horns in their stations, as well as amplification devices, according to a review of their websites, The Boston Globe reported on Monday. www.whdh.com /news/articles/local/A29391   (354 words)

Welcome to www.nycsubway.org Here's a list of over 125 artworks in New York City Subway Stations. Thu Jul 14 2005, Added new Subway Artwork Guide. Tue Jul 12 2005, Three new articles about the early days of the Interborough Subway: Clamor for Tickets for Subway Opening, Interesting Facts About Our Subway, and The Interborough Subway Power Plant (new article added to an existing page). www.nycsubway.org   (273 words)

MTA NYC Transit - Subway Service Information Click on any station below to link to information about the lines serving it. www.mta.nyc.ny.us /nyct/maps/submap.htm   (14 words)

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