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(...) I will try to grab some pics tonight. As far as vending and shops, I haven't really seen any vending to speak of other than the machines that sell the metrocard passes. With shops, lots of stations have newsstands that are built into the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Whist I cannot speak of the NY subway, I can attest to Toronto. TO has kiosks in quite a few of the stations, and the buskers are licensed (and Subway Elvis didn't do it!) The reason why the tile schemes are different in the stations is to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:G9JDo8.6J4@lugnet.com... (...) Toonerville?! Kind of embarasing to hear it called that... What on Earth is that suposed to mean? It's "rt" or "SRT"... or "Scarborough RT". :-/ (...) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) not another closet Mr T fan??? ROSCO FUT: lugnet.off-topic.fun (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Come on, I own the first public transfer issued by McCowan station, at something like 5:58 on the first day of the RT opening. I'm just not happy with the fact that it goes nowhere-I mean, yes, it's nice to be able to go to a shopping mall in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:G9Jq9A.HJp@lugnet.com... (...) Then what's with calling it the Toonersville Trolley? The rt is far from a trolley, and it's very misleading to those who read the group, who were (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I _think_ that the habit came from Scarborugh mayor (female, forget name). I _know_ that I picked it up, rather than calling it the toonerville trolley from the start....just force of habit I guess. I would have rather seen CLRV's on the RT (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:G9r5D8.8t3@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) from (...) on (...) it (...) Would you rather have seen CLRV's (why not ALRV's?) operating at tighter headways? (curious) Iain (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Either or (CLRV or ALRV) (I think of them as the same, even though they are not quite). I would rather seen the streetcars, because it would have made it possible to get streetcars back into Scarborough, whereas ICTS is never going to get (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:G9sGnC.HzM@lugnet.com... (...) are not (...) going Why is it important to get streetcars into Scarborough? I think we need to be moving ahead with transit, not backward. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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