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Re: I take back everything I said about the London Underground |
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Posted by MATHA531 on Sun Mar 4 21:03:47 2012, in response to I take back everything I said about the London Underground, posted by PATHman on Sun Mar 4 15:38:05 2012. They both have their pros and cons, of course. Countdown timers everywhere in London...NYC is still years aay from that Also they will make annoucements when something unusual is going on or some service is late like at High Street Kensington there was an annoucement one time that the circle line train is more than 8 minutes away so passengers are suggested to take this district line train to Earls Court and change there. You never get that in New York, you are left to fend fvor yourself (you know my pet peeve...a C train comes into Jay Street-Metro Tech and you're head for Broadway Junction...take it or wait for the A train which might be right behind or more than 10 minutes away but some here think it's no big deal that sort of thing which would be corrected, of course with countdown timers).As noted no A/c in London at all whereas almost all NYC subways have A/C that does function (although because of the laws of physics, this makes the stations unbearbly hotter than they would be sans a/c on the trains). It was claimed for a long time London did not need A/C but I've been on some tube trains in the summer where the heat has been almost unbearable. But A/C is coming. 24/7 in NY...19 hours a day in London. Express service on many lines in NY. Little in London (well the Picadilly line on the way in from Heathrow with the district line serving as the local). A single fare with transfers to buses in NY....zoned system in London and no transfers from underground to bus but much more imaginative fare system what with the oyster card and its capping system now but ungodly high single fare prices (the woman on the video being charged 5 quid for a single ouch). Trains more clearly marked in New York, important when there are multiple destinations. As I said, both saystems have their pros and cons. |
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