On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 at 22:44:52, Stephen Furley
wrote:

But nowhere does it obviously tell you that the diamonds are express and the
circles are local; if you look very closely in the corner of the map, in
very small print, you may notice that the word 'express' tends to be seen
near diamonds, but it's far from obvious. The squares seem to be
terminating points, but I'm not certain about that. The previous poster
said "The map is huge and confusing", I would say that is an understatement.

What's more, it tends to be inaccurate; when we were there, there were
engineering works on one of the tracks over Manhattan Bridge, which
meant that the line didn't go where it said it did.

According to some sources, they can't do the "next train" indicators
that we have, as it's "too complex", which I think is b*ll*cks, but
there you are.....

But at least once you know where you are going, and which train to take,
you get a 24-hour service, on admittedly less comfortable, but also less
crowded trains.
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Annabel Smyth
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