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25 unusual facts about rapid transit


Belgrano, Buenos Aires

The heart of the barrio pulses with life on its main thoroughfare, Avenida Cabildo, which runs Northwest to Southeast; the subway (subte) Line D follows its route.

Bernard Krigstein

The protagonist is a former Nazi death camp commandant named Reissman who had managed to elude justice until he is spotted ten years later riding a New York subway.

Bit

The same principle was later used in the magnetic bubble memory developed in the 1980s, and is still found in various magnetic strip items such as metro tickets and some credit cards.

Civic Center, San Francisco

Civic Center Station is a subway stop for both BART and the Muni Metro.

Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz

The building, the second-tallest in the city at the time, incorporated a subway stop into its basement levels.

Epiphany Monastery

The monastic facilities were first transformed into a campus for students of the Mining Academy and workers, engaged in the subway construction, and later - into metalworks.

Gender mainstreaming

Pictograms and information display charts will feature a male silhouette holding a baby in his arms to advise passengers on the underground railway to offer seating to parents with children.

George Ibanez

He was introduced to graffiti art while attending Franklin K. Lane High School and began painting subways at age 13 in the East New York section of Brooklyn.

Head house

In the context of subways, a head house refers to the part of a subway station that is above ground, which may be nothing more than a covered entrance.

Jing-Mei Chen

In this episode, it is revealed that four months after she quit, she was inspired to return to medicine after saving a man's life on a subway.

João Pavão Martins

Together they led the company to develop and deploy a series of complex software systems in railway and metro companies throughout Europe.

Kolomna Locomotive Works

Prior to the World War II (1941 - 1945), the plant produced steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, diesel engines, tunnel shields and tubing to subway, turbine, tenders, condensers for steam locomotives.

Maracaibo Metro

The Maracaibo Metro, also known as Metro del Sol Amado, is a six-station metro system in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Park Street Under

Park Street Under is a sitcom set in a fictional bar in the Park Street subway station in Boston, Massachusetts.

People v. Goetz

On December 22, 1984, four young black men (Troy Canty, Darryl Cabey, James Ramseur, and Barry Allen) boarded a subway car in the Bronx.

Quilicura

A subway line connecting the commune with the rest of Santiago's subway network is expected to be completed by 2017-2018.

Rosie Ruiz

Not long after that, freelance photographer Susan Morrow reported meeting her on the subway during the New York Marathon and accompanying her from the subway to the race.

Serfaus

It is well known for its connection to the Ski-Area "Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis" and its tiny subway system, the Dorfbahn Serfaus.

In order to enable an even quieter and more environmentally friendly way of transportation, the subway system, the Dorfbahn Serfaus went into operation in 1985.

Struggle from the Subway to the Charts

The plot consists of a dark, introductory piece (Broken Sorrow), followed by the brothers facing a tense situation during a ride on the subway (Struggle) and the expression of their emotional dilemmas (Thunder).

Subterranean London

The London Underground was the first underground railway in the world, and remains one of the most extensive.

Train noise

The air displacement of a train or subway car in a tunnel can create different whooshing sounds.

Velim railway test circuit

In addition 1.5-kilometre length can be equipped for third rail supply for metro operators.

Westfield Sydney Central Plaza

When the owners of Grace Bros, the Coles Myer Group decided to redevelop their Sydney flagship store they decided that it would also be appropriate to include third-party retail stores on the lower levels, thus providing an open link from Sydney's Town Hall subway station and QVB to the Pitt Street Mall, the heart of the city's retailing precinct.

Young Widow

After she accepts his apology, Jim accompanies her to the subway.


BHÉV

BHÉV (Budapest Helyiérdekű Vasút), is a system of four commuter rails (Szentendre HÉV, Gödöllő HÉV, Csömör HÉV and Ráckeve HÉV) and rapid transit (Csepel HÉV and Békásmegyer HÉV (part of the Szentendre HÉV)) lines in and around Budapest, Hungary.

Caijindaxue Station

Caijindaxue Station (Chinese: 财经大学站), also known as Caijin University Station or Tianjin University of Finance & Economics Station, is an elevated rapid transit station located in Hexi District, Tianjin, China, adjacent to the main campus of the Tianjin University of Finance & Economics (TUFE).

Charente-Maritime

Just outside the city is a factory for the French engineering giant Alstom, where the TGV, the cars for the Paris and other metros are manufactured.

Dadeland

Rapid transit service into Downtown Miami commenced with the completion of the Miami Metrorail in 1984, providing rail service to suburban commuters in southern Dade into Miami and greater South Florida's central business district.

Doha Metro

The Doha Metro is a rapid transit system under construction in Doha, the capital of Qatar, as well as some of its neighbouring municipalities.

Forward Thrust

The failure of the rapid transit propositions meant that a nearly $900 million federal funding earmark that had been secured by U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson if local bonds passed went instead to fund Atlanta, Georgia's MARTA.

Guía Roji

Many modern Guía Roji editions include a plastic flat magnifying glass, entire Metro networks for Mexico City and Monterrey, and, for the Mexico City edition, a folding map containing the Distribuidor Vial and the Centro Histórico.

IND Crosstown Line

The IND Crosstown Line or Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States.

José González-Lander

Caracas' rapid growth as a result of the oil boom of the 1970s strained the capacity of the city's road network and the need for a rapid transit system became evident as automotive traffic along its modern expressways became chaotic.

Kolkata Metro Line 2

Line 2, also known as East-West corridor of the Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system under construction which will serve Kolkata, Salt Lake and Howrah in the Indian state of West Bengal underneath the Hooghly River.

Lurup

Lurup is serviced by the rapid transit system of the city train with the station Elbgaustrasse on the border to Eidelstedt and the station Krupunder on the border to Halstenbek.

National Narrowcasting Network

N³ has also installed the devices in MARTA stations (Atlanta's metro transit system).

Otxarkoaga-Txurdinaga

An EuskoTren rapid transit line will be built through the district, connecting it to the underground network.

Port Mann Bridge

The Livable Region Coalition urged the Minister of Transportation, Kevin Falcon, to consider rapid transit lines and improved bus routes instead of building the new bridge.

Shuanglin Station

Shuanglin Station (Chinese: 双林站) is an elevated rapid transit station located in Jinnan District, Tianjin, China, near the Tianjin University of Technology and Education.

Urban survival syndrome

In People v. Goetz, 68 N.Y.2d 96 (N.Y. 1986), Bernhard Goetz, a white man, used the defense of a subjective state of terror and fear to justify the shooting of four black teenagers on a New York City subway.