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What underground metros have you been on?

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  • #52
    LoonyLovegood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    I've been on Boston, San Francisco and Copenhagen. Found Boston great, very easy to use. Barely remember SF, I was fairly young at the time. Copenhagen was great. Fast and clean.


  • #53
    relaxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭relaxed


    I found hong kong the best, were trains every 2 minutes? Not much longer anyway.

    And in some places Instead of up and down tracks across a platform, you had the up or down of one line across from a different line so less walking to change trains on different lines.

    The octopus cards worked on almost everything including coke machines.

    The pedestrian walkways were designed so that in the morning when all the people were going to work they could occupy 2/3rd of the walkway, and in the evening going home they could take over the middle part of the walkway as that's where the volume of people were, so they ad 2 "lanes" when the traffic was gong that way.

    Extremely clean and safe too. People let their 8 yo kids across hong kong on their own on the metro as its safe to do so.


  • #54
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    London, Stockholm, Kuala Lumpur (albeit only a few stops of that are underground) and Tehran.


  • #55
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,694 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    London
    Rome
    Munich
    Stockholm
    Helsinki
    Barcelona

    Munich and Stockholm being standout performers. Munich better or at least as good as London, barrier free too. Helsinki being rather dull, like most of the city..


  • #56
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    London - Found the air to be as heavy as my bags! The sudden gush of Air as a train was coming up to the platform was unusually refreshing.

    Chicago - Never really thought of it as an underground system. For the most part quite a lot of the line I'd used when I was there was overground and only around the immediate surrounding areas and little parts of the city did it go under.


  • #57
    dowlingm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    The Toronto subway is a bit pricey but remember it includes a transfer from and/or to connecting surface routes.

    The socialist paradise can have a bit of decoration (see also Moscow) - if Irish Rail wanted anything other than kitchen tiles in DU the papers would have a fit of the vapours.


  • #58
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    London - Found the air to be as heavy as my bags! The sudden gush of Air as a train was coming up to the platform was unusually refreshing..

    I'm nearly sure I recall that it is that way by design.


  • #59
    outrageous
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭outrageous


    Paris and Cologne


  • #60
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    London
    Glasgow
    Hamburg
    Warsaw
    Amsterdam

    All grand to be honest, just check a map before ye go, try to remember what stop you want to get off at and Bob's your uncle


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  • #61
    Irish Halo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    The only one I've been on that has not been mentioned I think is Taipei, very modern, spacious trains, clean (No eating whatsoever allowed), easy to use and essential for getting around the city. It also has signs dissuading male travellers from sexually harassing female travellers (in English as well as Chinese) and separate female only carriages/spaces on platforms for post-8pm


  • #62
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    NoNewFriends wrote: »
    For me, underground rail transport is the best option for urban travel as it doesn't require expensive planning permission or visually spoil the cityscape. In chronological order for me:

    Toronto (Clean and spacious but expensive)
    Montreal (Great architecture and colourful stations)
    New York (Cramped and dirty compared to Toronto and Montreal but it's essential for getting around the Big Apple)
    London (Absolutely huge and packed trains)
    Chicago (Only used it for an airport trip to downtown)
    Madrid (Some colourful and unique stations. Very packed like London)
    Sevilla (Modern and clean)

    I hope to try out some of the smaller metros closer to home soon in Liverpool and Glasgow. Hopefully someday Dublin can have it's own stretch of DART Underground.

    Is this Barry Kenny?


  • #63
    Ben D Bus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Ben D Bus


    London
    Liverpool
    Paris
    Frankfurt
    Madrid
    Moscow
    Leningrad (as it was known then)


  • #64
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,084 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Liverpool (very recently ... kinda like a mini London)
    Boston
    London
    New York
    Paris

    I definitely travelled in the following places ... can't remember if it was on a underground though:
    Edinburgh
    Sydney
    Vancouver
    Chicago
    Melbourne


    And probably some more I've forgotten.


  • #65
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    I was on Newcastle and London in England,
    Subway in NYC,
    Barcelona.

    Bilbo, where they have christened the entrance portals Fosteritos after the architect Norman Foster who designed them.
    It was pretty much a linear system following the Nervion Valley with a split near the ends serving each bank near the river mouth.
    https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSv2iFGnTm0kw_Vilau2B6jTtZy20GnLRWSrhSOjlhvVdLFTjSl5A


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