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10 facts about the subway
1. Metropolitan New York consists of two incompatible networks constructed by different companies.
2. One of the best violinists Joshua Bell American 12 January 2007, agreed to take part in the experiment - in the morning for 45 minutes he played in the subway station under the guise of an ordinary street musician. Of the thousands of people passed by only seven interested in music.
3. Everywhere its own characteristics. For example, the subway in Berlin is not familiar to Russians designated by the letter M and the letter U - Untergrundbahn (subways).
4. for transplantation from one line to another at some stations of the Moscow Metro, you can spend less than thirty seconds, and in Paris - more than 15 minutes.
5. The first line of the London Underground has a horse-drawn was commissioned in 1863. November 4, 1890 in London, went into effect the world's first subway.
6. At 9 kilometers of Yekaterinburg are 7 subway stations. Metro Ekaterinburg included in the "Guinness Book of Records" as the shortest subway in the world. Its construction lasted for more than 22 years. Originally planned commissioning of the 32 stations, the construction was stopped due to bankruptcy "Sverdlovskmetrostroya».
7. The most unvisited metro in the world is located in Kazan. There are only five stations, so they are mostly tourists, and then go down to look at the luxurious decoration stations. So for the moment it is the cleanest subway in the world of cars with white and bright blue upholstered chairs. By the way, the subway, and Kazan is the most beautiful subway in Russia.
8. It should be noted, however, that in 2005 the safest metro Russia was named Metro Novosibirsk. By the way, called Novosibirsk subway and most advertising. In addition to posters and banners, ads here is on the internal television - at some stations and train cars, and most of the cars for a long time to "sell" to advertisers and painted a certain color brand.
9. The longest metro bridge is located in Novosibirsk. Its length - 2145 meters.
10. Metro - perhaps the most non-proliferation in public transport. A little more than a hundred cities in the world can boast the presence of "underground", and not just in the continent: Antarctica, of course, take it not worth it, but in Africa only two subway - in Cairo and Tunis. Yes, and two in Australia - Melbourne and Sydney.
A selection was: Lori Destroy
via factroom.ru
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