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Re: Asians find the term ''yellow line'' offensive |
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Posted by Michael549 on Tue Feb 9 20:55:50 2010, in response to Re: Asians find the term ''yellow line'' offensive, posted by B49 Limited on Tue Feb 9 18:47:35 2010. From a previous message: "Or how about N Q R W trains running at Canal Street Station..."Basically the colors for the various train routes in the current NYC subway system was derived from the dominant express route as listed on the subway maps of the early 1970's. The lines listed above are yellow because the N train was yellow on those subway maps. At that time, the R train (called RR then) was green, and the Q (then called the QB) was red. The W line did not exist then, but the EE train did, and that was orange. At that time, several lines shared a color, for example both the N-train and the #6 train were yellow. The routes that traveled along the Lexington Avenue line, the Nassau Street line, and the #7 Flushing line were given a different route color, since their previous major express color was used by the other lines. There were some question on certain lines which express route was the "major route". Just a note. Mike |
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