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David of Broadway · September 29th 06, 08:08 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
Buenos Aires also does that multiple names for the same station thing.

As does New York, since most stations are named after cross streets. I
can ride the F or V train along 6th Avenue to the 14th Street station or
I can ride the L train along 14th Street to the 6th Avenue station and
reach the same point. (To make matters even more confusing, a
passageway to 7th Avenue permits free transfers to the 1, 2, and 3
trains. So if you're on the L and you want to transfer to the 7th
Avenue line, you have to get off at 6th Avenue.)

New York also has multiple stations with the same name, for the same
reason. There are additional stations named 14th Street at Union Square
and at 8th Avenue. There are even two routes that stop at pairs of
identically named stations: the B stops at 7th Avenue (and 53rd Street)
in Manhattan and at 7th Avenue (and Flatbush Avenue) in Brooklyn, and
the R stops at 36th Street (and Northern Boulevard) in Queens and at
36th Street (and 4th Avenue) in Brooklyn. And if that's not bad enough,
the D train has stops named 47th-50th Streets, 50th Street, and Bay 50th
Street.

The New York Metrocard is paper, not plastic - I have one here as a
bookmark somewhere.

No, the standard MetroCard is plastic. SingleRide tickets and bus
transfers are paper.

What annoys me is that you need a US zipcode to buy
one with a credit card (and I'm pretty sure you can buy top-ups too) -
US banknotes hardly ever work in machines, so it's hard for foreigners
to get hold of one.

Do the machines ask for zip codes for foreign cards? That's pretty silly.
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David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA