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Posted by Fytton on Thu Sep 3 03:44:25 2009, in response to Re: Station naming (NYC), posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Sep 2 22:13:21 2009. 'I don't think it is all that confusing. Have you found it confusing?'In a word, yes. Having grown up with the London Underground and Harry Beck-style maps of it, I found NYCT quite hard to use at first - and I've been a railfan more or less from birth. It's true that tourists from out of town are unlikely to use the four Kings Highway stations, but the duplicate names are only one of the problems - station entrances that give access to only one direction are another. Even I, as an experienced railfan, got caught out that way once. Admittedly I had a FunPass so it just meant an 18-minute delay, but it was a nuisance for all that. Of the urban rapid transit systems I've used, I'd say only Tokyo's was more confusing than NYCT. The other 'majors' - London, Paris, Berlin (despite the S-Bahn/U-Bahn business), Madrid - are all easier to understand. I've never been to Moscow, but its metro's layout - a series of radial lines all linked by a single circumferential line - looks pretty easy to follow on the map, though of course one has to grapple with the Cyrillic alphabet there. |
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