Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:32:12 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Metro is 30
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> drewbitt at yahoo.com 3/28/2006 7:39:38 AM >>>

>I'll second that-- Metro's much better than other
>subway systems I've seen/ridden (and I've been all
>over the country). While it is "showing its age" just
>a bit, the NYC system looks its 100 years, believe me,

I've been going to NYC - and riding the subway - on a fairly regulary
basis for just over 30 years. I remember when the cars were heavily
grafittied (sp?) and the system was teetering on the brink of collapse.

Now... it's a better system.  Perfect?  No, but hey it runs 24 hours a
day - how many systems do that?

>and the Tube in London is rough around the edges as
>well.

Ghod help the handicapped in most of the stations.  The newer ones -
such as the massively rebuilt/expanded Westminster stop - are accesible.
 The Westminster tube station does not look at all like what one thinks
of a tube station to look like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_tube_station

>It'd be nice if they'd make links to other regional
>and urban systems;

Once upon a time, sort of: interurban systems.  See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interurban

> I think it'll happen in time but
>it's frustrating that progress doesn't move in the
>blink of an eye (the way it does in sf!).
>best,

Politics and money...

mjw
>Drew
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