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nytraveler Apr 22nd, 2013 01:50 PM

Not on the "Metro" they don't.

It's better not to have people wandering the streets asking for the wrong thing - or they might be sent to Grand Central - for Metro North - or to the Metro sub shop.

This is like people who ask for Greenwich when they mean Greenwich Village - they need to be corrected to avoid confusion - or they can end up in CT.

Why promote confusion with incorrect terminology?

EmilyPost Apr 22nd, 2013 01:55 PM

Oh, I have no problem with clarifying the difference between the subway and the non-existant 'metro'.

You are misleading others as you continually write that staying outside of the city is a PITA for visitors. It isn't. Nope. Not really. It isn't.

I am assured that few truly 'lost people' will end up in CT.

POMAH Apr 28th, 2013 06:31 PM

Ye, no "Metro" in NYC, but why is it called the "Metro Card"? huh? go figure it out.

BTW, dont ask to eat a subway :-)

PS: perhaps the Metro as in city card?
PSS: the so-called subway is above ground mostly in Brooklyn.


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