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Re: PRESS RELEASE Re: It's Offal? W train returning |
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Posted by Michael549 on Sat Feb 20 15:58:26 2016, in response to Re: PRESS RELEASE Re: It's Offal? W train returning, posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 20 13:59:25 2016. In an another reading or video it was said that many of the current (or near current) subway routes obtained their names from reading the subway map from left to right, the way in which most reading is done in the US. That is at a period when all of the subways were joined under one umbrella, and the various lines had to be sorted out.That is starting from the left or west are the lowest letters or numbers, and they get higher as one moves to the right. Of course the naming convention is not "pure" as there have been plenty of changes over the years even if the basic model mostly holds. Of course with the IND system being the city's municipal subway their naming convention remained the same, while naming conventions for the BMT and IRT were created. I'm not saying that there was not some "orderliness" to the naming schemes, as well as some instances of naming the M, MM or MJ for the Myrtle Avenue line, etc. I'm simply saying that the route names are NOT named in relation to boroughs! The AA-train may have been an Eighth Avenue local train, but it was not named, the "Manhattan Local Train 33". In the subways that we don't have a scheme like the M-22 and the B-22 or Bx-22 bus lines for the totally separate Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx bus routes. Mike |
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