On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Pollak, Melissa F. <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, the subway stops are relatively close together, especially when > compared with those of other relatively new systems. For example, you can't > tell me that there's not a lot of space between the Universal Studios > and Hollywood stops in LA. Here, in most cases, they're probably a mile > apart, sometimes a lot less. Also, unlike LA, there are always people out > on the street walking (more like New York). Last Sunday, I had to leave my > place at 6:30 in the morning to catch a bus to New York, and even though it > was dark, there was traffic and even another pedestrian or two and I felt > perfectly safe. That wouldn't have been the case in most other metropolitan > areas.
Well, to be fair you can't really refer to Los Angeles as having a mass transit rail system. What they have now is a first feeble step, but nothing substantial. Comparing to LA is setting the bar very low. I think a better comparison for the DC Metro is BART in the Bay Area. In the central city area the stations are pretty close together (you can pretty easily walk from station to station if need be) while in the outer suburban areas the stations are further apart. And both central city areas have much more of a pedestrian culture and orientation than Los Angeles, where walking is what one does between your car and the mall. The main difference we have noticed between the DC and BART systems is how appalling deep the Metro stations seem to have been built. My wife is literally fearful of taking those long, long escalator rides deep into the bowels underneath DC, at least twice as deep as the BART stations in SF. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
