This is also a good point. Also, it would be nice to not get an overwhelming urge to wash your hands after holding on to the poles in the Metro cars for any length of time, but I'm aware that's about as likely to happen as Gregory Smith turning up on my doorstep with three pints of ice cream. More's the pity, alas.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
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Holli - Apr 14, 2003 10:09:09 am PDT #3548 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
meara - Apr 14, 2003 10:13:54 am PDT #3549 of 9843
Smell like pee? Huh, I've never noticed it smelling like pee....though I am quite frightened of some of the elevators, after hearing about someone who accidentally shared one with a rat one evening (ICK!).
I think kindergarten murals would liven it up quite nicely.
Julie - Apr 14, 2003 10:16:34 am PDT #3550 of 9843
Also, it would be nice to not get an overwhelming urge to wash your hands after holding on to the poles in the Metro cars for any length of time
After the first time I used the subway in NY, I was convinced that the sign read "Do not use the handrail" (It doesn't, it says "Use the handrail" but I can't imagine who does.) I thought it was very NYish to leave them up and then warn people not to use them.
Yes, I am a eejit.
Fay - Apr 14, 2003 10:50:13 am PDT #3551 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
The London Tube freaked me out a little because it was so obviously old and the ceilings felt really low (edit: I was only in a few stations, so I have no idea if that's typical)
Totally depends which line you're on, fwiw - the Jubilee Line Extension, for example, is gorgeous and shiny and brand spanking new. Then you've got pretty much every other era represented between now and the Victorian period...and I was never fond of the Northern Line carriages. Still, I don't think the tube is nearly as bad as people often say - not that it's perfect, but it's pretty good. I agree with Am, basically. (Although I v. rarely travelled into or out of the centre during rush hour. Rush hour on the tube IS hellish, imho.)
Sheryl - Apr 14, 2003 11:23:25 am PDT #3552 of 9843
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
My theory about the D.C. Metro is that everyone would like it a lot more if they brought a few classes of kindergarteners in to paint murals on all those acres of concrete. It'd really brighten up the place.
Have you seen the Silver Spring station? :)
I wonder who's got the penguin fetish in Silver Spring...
t /hijacking of thread
Consuela - Apr 14, 2003 12:12:16 pm PDT #3553 of 9843
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I love the MIT stop on the Red Line in Boston, with the musical instruments. And the brass gloves stuck to the railings in... Porter Square? I think?
The Embarcadero BART stop in San Francisco has a very large and very ugly brown rope macrame thing hanging on the wall. It's been there for years and it just gets dustier and dustier...
meara - Apr 14, 2003 12:15:24 pm PDT #3554 of 9843
The one thing I did love love love the only time I was in London was that there was a little sign thing that said when the next train was coming. It was so fabulous--and now DC has that too! It's exciting.
t edited to add: it would be more exciting if they had one saying that BEFORE you got down into the station, so you knew if you needed to run down the escalator, or had time to put money on your card, or what...
§ ita § - Apr 14, 2003 12:17:31 pm PDT #3555 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Best subway I've ever taken was the Moscow one. Drop dead gorgeous stations, and trains that arrived almost before the one you'd just missed had cleared the station.
evil jimi - Apr 14, 2003 12:19:50 pm PDT #3556 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
The last time I caught a train in Adelaide -- about 3 years ago and the first time in around 10 years -- I was surprised when a small speaker squawked to life and announced the arrival of the next train in 5 minutes time.
Theodosia - Apr 14, 2003 12:23:06 pm PDT #3557 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I love the MIT stop on the Red Line in Boston, with the musical instruments. And the brass gloves stuck to the railings in... Porter Square? I think?
Yes -- Porter has the brass gloves -- some of them are embedded in the tiles on the platforms, too. If you look carefully, there's a glove with two thumbs near the elevator on the inbound side.
Davis has poems etched into the tile floors!