subways
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What New York’s Subways Looked Like 100 Years Ago
You can tell from the construction of New York City’s new 7 train extension that building subways is no easy task. That makes it all the more impressive that subways were up and running 100 years ago. And even more amazingly, they don’t even look all that different.
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Watch MTA Workers Deep Inside NYC’s Storm-Ravaged L Train Tunnel
We’ve seen photos of New York’s beloved L train being drained of flood water left over from Hurricane Sandy. Now the MTAhas released video footage of workers toiling away to get the beleaguered line back up and running.
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Kazakhstan’s New Metro Is The Only Clean Subway You’ll See
Kazakhstan isn’t the first country I’d associate with modernism and gleaming infrastructure, but according to photos from English Russia, I’m dead wrong: the Altmay Metro is gorgeous. And, shocking to any urbanite, gorgeously clean, like Star Trek with more maids.
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Buy Groceries At A Virtual Supermarket Inside A Subway Station
I would never do my grocery shopping inside a subway station. The smells? The rats? The slime? Gross. But what about a virtual supermarket where you scan QR codes of items and have it delivered to you by the end of the day?