Subway Systems of the World.

[maveric]

http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/index.php

[tjwmason]

1. Fascinating.

If anybody's interested in where I live - look at the London map. There's a line going out to the North-West which goes further out than the others. I'm very close to the end of that line.

[maveric]

2. I had no idea that Atlanta had a subway system.

[AllegroRondo]

15. I thought MARTA was all above ground

[maveric]

26. The San Diego Trolley has one underground station. SDSU.

Does that make it a "subway"?

[huskerlaw]

3. Is it just me or

does Boston's look like a fire dancer?? :shrug:

[maveric]

4. Indeed. And Moscow looks like a spider.

[madinmaryland]

5. They don't have Baltimore's on there.

Its in to the lightrail system.

[maveric]

6. I was wondering about that too.

Does Baltimore's system actually go underground?

[madinmaryland]

33. Well here is the map . . .

It goes underground according to a report a saw on channel 2.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

7. They're missing Rome, Italy

although its just a big ole X

[Kellanved]

8. The dude forgot the S-Bahn

So he missed most of the Berlin net. :grr:

http://www.s-bahn-berlin.de/pdf/s_bahn_netz.pdf

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

9. He explains why on the triple asterisk on the bottom

***This is the U-bahn. I spent €4.50 on a official Berlin public transit Stadtplan, and it still didn't include the full extent of the S-Bahn lines. So, the S-bahn doesn't count as a subway to me.

[Kellanved]

11. lame excuse

" and it still didn't include the full extent of the S-Bahn lines. So, the S-bahn doesn't count as a subway to me."

He could have included the part covered by the map. It goes underground and it goes through the city. Sounds like a subway to me.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

12. lol, its not my excuse!

:hi:

[Kellanved]

13. Lol! I know

:hi:

Saw it on his page and quoted from there :D

[jmowreader]

37. I don't think the S-bahn is a subway

Some people do, but I do not.

It's light rail, same as the U-bahn.

However! When they first started the BVG, the U-bahn was all underground and the S-bahn was all aboveground. Now there's S-bahn lines that run underground and U-bahn lines that run at least partly aboveground, like the first four stops on the U-2.

Add in the streetcars in what was East Berlin, the bus system, the M-bahn demonstration maglev line in the middle of town...Berlin has a very well-integrated mass transit system.

Shit, I need to get back there. I miss that place so much.

[Kellanved]

38. well, I guess the case can be made

However, the U-bahn never was all underground, actually it started out almost entirely on elevated tracks.
Later, it was above ground in poor districts and underground in the richer ones.

The S-bahn started out as a connection to the nearby towns and cities; the case can be made that it is somewhat like the Metro North in NYC. I'd at least include the inner city ring-lines into the subway net, as those lines are entirely for inner-city transportation .






http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Bahn_Berlin
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Bahn_Berlin

See ya :hi:

Oh: the M-Line is no more; they refitted the line with normal tracks. On the other hand the west gets equipped with streetcars.

[TransitJohn]

10. They forgot Poland!!

Seriously, there's gotta be an urb in Poland w/ a subway.

[Initech]

14. It's kinda funny that the LA system is on there.

One of my friends who's a train expert says that train goes nowhere. He's right.

[Shakespeare]

16. Hey, it's better than dealing with the freeways.

I used to use the subway all the time when I lived there--could go from Hollywood to downtown in a matter of minutes. The new gold line into Pasadena's pretty good, too.

For a young system, it ain't half bad.

[maveric]

17. Wasnt there a subway system in LA during the1920's-40's?

[Shakespeare]

27. I'm not sure--I know they had a streetcare/cablecar system. n/t

[kwassa]

30. Los Angeles had streetcar lines only, the Red Cars

General Motors bought them up and put them out of business.

[Xithras]

18. BART isn't really a subway

It's a regional transport system, designed to move people between cities, not through them. The fact that a short stretch of the track through San Francisco is under ground doesn't make it a subway. A lot of people use BART to get from SF to Oakland, Fremont, or SFO, but very few use it to move around the city (why would you...it only has a couple of stops and is stupidly expensive when compared to the MUNI bus system).

It's not a subway, it's an electric railroad for commuters.

[trof]

19. I like Brussels. It's cute.

;-)

[maveric]

20. Trivia: What city had the 1st subway system in the US?

Any takers?

[trof]

22. Lompoc

[maveric]

24. Hehe! Nice try but incorrect sir!

NEXT...

[maveric]

28. No takers?

[yellowdogintexas]

32. Boston nt

[maveric]

36. DING DING DING! We have a winner.

[UrbScotty]

21. I've only been on Washington's Green Line

I was there a few years ago. It's the line that goes to the southeast, in about the 4:00 position.

[Clintmax]

23. They forgot the subway in Rome, Italy!

:rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Tokyo: I think the map is out of date

In any case, some of those subway lines emerge from their tunnels and continue way into the suburbs as surface trains.

Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya, Yokohama, and Sapporo also have subways.

[kwassa]

29. I've been on: Moscow, Paris, London, N.Y. , D.C. Boston and ...

watched LA's being built when I was there. Never rode it, because it didn't go anywhere.

Moscow moves 13 million people a day, the most impressive. They now use subway tickets that are vitually identical to the ones used on the Metro in DC. I still have mine, somewheres.

Paris's Metro was the most fun.

[NYdemocrat089]

31. I've only been on the DC and Barcelona subways.

The DC Metro was very nice (at least I thought so). I found it very easy to get around on. Barcelona's was a little more complicated but it was nice aswell. It took me about 20 minutes to ride from the town I was living in to the port.

[Wapsie B]

34. The traffic cams for NYC are cool.

http://webcam.mta.info/mta3/index.jsp

[Dispatcher45]

35. Maps of world subway systems

Can be found here -

http://urbanrail.net/
http://www.subways.net/
http://www.reed.edu/~reyn/transport.html

And if your interested in subways and mass transit, there's even a blog devoted to that subject -

http://thirdrail.smorgasblog.com/

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