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Monthly Archives: December 2012
C-Shaped Lines
The ideal rapid transit line looks something like a straight line. It can have deviations, but on a map it will be more or less a line with a definitive direction. Most rapid transit lines are indeed linear, or failing … Continue reading
Posted in New York, Regional Rail, Transportation, Urban Transit
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