Timeline for What's the difference between 'subway', 'metro' and 'tube'?
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| Jul 1, 2014 at 3:06 | comment | added | keshlam | In some cities, a "subway" refers to an underground pedestrian walkway used to cross streets that do not have traffic lights or crosswalks on the surface level. And for an interesting repurposing of old elevated tracks, look up New York City's High Line | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 17:48 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | +1 for layout and precision. Jimi Oke's answer although identical, doesn't have that same fluidity of reading. | |
| Aug 2, 2011 at 7:12 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | If we're going to be technical, only a small portion of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is in San Francisco, although San Francisco contains most of BART's underground tracks. Our local mass-transit system is called the Municipal Railway, or Muni for short, and includes light rail (every route has both subway and surface track, but sadly no elevated track), cable cars (unpowered rail cars that grab onto moving, miles-long loops of steel cables running under the street), electric coaches (powered by overhead wires), and diesel buses. | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 23:35 | comment | added | Daniel Rodriguez | Guadalajara, Mexico - Tren ligero (light train) | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 23:34 | comment | added | Daniel Rodriguez | Mexico City - Metro | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 16:28 | comment | added | Eric | An additional complication in Chicago: The parts of the L that are underground are referred to as the subway, even though it is the same trains. | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 14:51 | comment | added | Mr. Shiny and New 安宇 | You could add: Toronto - "Subway", because it's mostly underground (the elevated part is called the RT, short for LRT, light rail tranist); Montreal - metro, probably because the Paris one is already called metro. In these two cities people rarely use other words for the underground trains. | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 14:51 | comment | added | user597 | Montreal - also Metro. | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 8:25 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | New York City's MTA refers to the subway, but you get through the turnstile with a MetroCard, further confusing the issue. Locals seem to use both terms these days, "subway" and "metro". | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 6:09 | comment | added | Orbling | NB. In London (where I am from), we call the subterranean train system "The Tube" or "The Underground", we do however also use the word subway. We use it for pedestrian tunnels underground, usually for crossing busy roads, and particularly for getting in to underground stations. | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 1:50 | vote | accept | Nano HE | ||
| Dec 15, 2010 at 1:48 | history | answered | nohat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |