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Re: subway info?
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 04:12:38 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> NYC stations are pretty barren, people don't dawdle around, and machines
> would get vandalized/robbed. Just grime and tile walls and steel bars. Some
> station hallways (on the way to the gates) have small shops but not nearly
> as many as London. (or Sydney, for that matter... some Sydney stations you
> can tell were architected to try to look like Underground stations, right
> down to the badging.)
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> If your NYC station is of any size make sure you have a busker or two, and
> maybe a legless panhandler.
I haven't been in the NYC subways enough to know, but there sure is some
interesting stuff in Boston's T stations. Some inspirations I would take
from the T:
- Track leading off into dark tunnel to nowhere
- Old traction equipment which is either essentially abandoned or just
used for MOW duties parked on unused tracks in stations.
- Road tunnel with electric trolley buses and regular buses (the trolley
buses are interesting sights to see, their trolley poles have a very
wide swing, which allows the bus to drive in any lane or pull over to
pick up passengers. I wonder if any other city has as wide a variety of
mass transit as Boston, which is served by: long distance bus, private
express buses, T buses, trolley buses, commuter rail, Amtrak, trolley,
subway, elevated train, and harbor shuttle. The main transit types that
I think are missing would be interurban and monorail (of course there
are a few other types of train service Boston doesn't have such as high
speed electric). Of course this isn't entirely surprising since Boston
has one of the oldest transit systems.
A few of the T stations do have vending machines. One thing I have
always figured to help keep Boston's subways a little cleaner and less
vandalized than NYC is that the subway doesn't run all night.
Frank
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| In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz writes: <Extolls the virtues of Boston as a source of proto inspiration> (...) Well Boston DOES have Acela, it leaves from South Station. But it's not all that high speed till it clears the in town trackage... Of all the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) It's been years since I've been on the T or even driving in Boston, but I forgot about those electric buses. Way cool. And the T on Commonwealth ave, I used to love riding that.... One thing I have (...) I never thought of that, it makes (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Note that even with the wide swing they still loose contact between the trolley poles and the electricity. Actually I have seen this quite often, usually the bus just costs to the side of the street and the driver gets out and there is a wheel (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: subway info?
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| (...) The nycsubway.org site (sp?) given earlier has all that info and then some. If anything it has TOO MUCH info. Fascinating reading though. NYC stations are pretty barren, people don't dawdle around, and machines would get vandalized/robbed. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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