• Ardor von Heersburg@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Not really. While there are more cities in Germany with a system called U-Bahn only Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Nuremberg have real U-Bahn-systems all the others technically are Stadtbahnen, Unterstraßenbahnen or simular.

      But if course it’s up for discussion if the term metro should be translated in such a strict way, or whether it should be done more open to include other systems as well.

      Edit: So at least if you follow the definition of the word Metro by the UITP the map is completely correct for Germany.

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    Back when he could still take care of himself, my Geordie grandpa could walk to the metro station and get anywhere he wanted in Newcastle or the UK without getting in a car. When he moved to Manchester to be closer to his daughter so she could help take care of him, he lost that and was then completely trapped unless aomeone could drive him where he wanted to go.

    So shoutoit ti the Tyne and Wear Metro for giving my grandpa independence for so long.

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    Didn’t realize until today that basically every other country apart from Germany uses an “M” as a symbol.

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      UK’s got S, M and the Underground roundel. I think it’s interesting that those three different common terms, subway, metro and underground, used globally, all originate from the London Underground in different ways.

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        Very little of the Newcastle Metro is underground. Mostly it’s just the bin in Sunderland and Newcastle itself.

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      London’s Underground is amazing when it does work, but pure hell when it doesn’t.

      Once you have a rough idea of what lines go where, you can usually guess your way to your location by filling in gaps for lines that regularly go down (Lizzy Line…).

      A lot of people assume that having trains every 3-5 mins is great, but that timing is needed to get the sheer number of people using the underground out of/around London.

      Thankfully, London has a lot of great pubs, so you can grab a nearby coffee in the morning, or a beer or two in the evening until things calm down.

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        Thankfully, London has a lot of great pubs

        Yeah but I don’t have a second mortgage so I think I’ll refrain. The only place I’ve ever been more expensive than London is Iceland but at least they have an excuse.

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          Very true, while pints here in Bristol are creeping up significantly, any time I get a pint in the city or in Shoreditch I’m almost speechless. £10 for a bog-standard lager probably isn’t far away…