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Re: photo of a Moscow metro station. In two brief visits to the Soviet Union at the end of the ‘70’s, I rode the metro in several cities. At the time, policy was a subway system would be built for every city approaching population of a million. Every station was spotlessly clean; each station had its own unique artistic design or theme such as the one in the picture—almost like cavernous rooms of a museum. Cost was the equivalent of a nickel. Trains arrived every two to five minutes during the busy times of the day, lengthening to about 15 minutes for trains around midnight. Lines were shut down only three or four hours in the early AM. It was decades later before platform clocks appeared on station platforms of US metro systems. And no US metro station that I have seen to date has resembled a large exhibit hall in a museum…

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John Reuter's avatar

Appears to me that word "implode" in title of this informative post is perhaps an error. Also, the following sentence seems not only incorrect but unnecessarily provocative. Thank you sir for your interesting, informative posts.

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