Post a pic of your favourite subway station....

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I like Brentwood on the millenium skytrain line in Vancouver. It's like a log cabin and a space ship rolled into one.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Ha'vahd Squeah

It's not the station, but the destination that matters...

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12. The other station I used for years

as I worked at the Coop, and liked to hang out with rif raf in the Pit.

[ogneopasno]

2. Mayakovskaya in St. Petersburg.

[PeaceNikki]

3. I've only been on the "L" which is fugly.

:shrug:

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4. I built this one out of LEGO:

:hi:

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8. there's a lil' leggo mugger waiting to roll his ass!

[PeaceNikki]

*hobo not included

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14. Not necessarily....

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. so cool!

[DS1]

5. Says the guy who thinks Americans are square

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9. But when I do it, it looks so cool!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Any subway station in Tokyo

This is what the network looks like:



The colored lines are subways, and the thin black lines are surface commuter trains.

Tokyo is about the closest thing to transit heaven I've ever seen, possibly more extensive than London, and definitely cleaner and more dependable.

[Arugula Latte]

10. That reminds me of a BART station in the Bay Area.

Similar look.

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17. They're soooo much better eh?

Seouls was fucking amazing

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. I've never been to Seoul, but that map does look impressive

Now I want to go, but that won't happen for a while. I'm not scheduled to be in the neighborhood till 2010. :-(

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Porter Square, Cambridge MA.

One of the Red Line extension stations from the 1980s, it has a cool collection of public art. Outside is a giant mobile with three red "horseshoe crabs" that pivot and spin on windy days. Inside there was a light catching ceiling installation over the short escalator to the turnstile level (it may be gone by now because they were having trouble with it for years.)

Once past the turnstiles one descends a long escalator with overhead baffles imprinted with images of trains. The other side of the baffles, visible when one ascends on the escalators is imprinted with white birds against a blue sky.

My favorite artwork here however is The Glove Cycle. It begins on the strip between the long escalators as a series of bronze gloves looking like discarded worker's gloves. Beyond the escalator the series continues with a few flat gloves in the floor and if one follows them to the end of the platform there is a final piece, a large pile of gloves.


the whole glove cycle is here:
http://www.harriesheder.com

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11. The station I used every day for years

The gloves are for the workers who died there, if I remember correctly... though I can't find any reference to it. Didn't they have a collapse during construction, where a bunch of the workers died? Now that I'm looking at the artist's website, it seems to have nothing to with it, though I always connected the two.

When I was a teen I used slide to down the escalator's rail (got in trouble once for it); it's exciting, as you pick up some serious steam, and you have to quickly gain your footing as you shoot out at the bottom (143' long down the descent). I took Bi-Baby there not too long ago, and decided to ride the rail again. She just rolled her eyes at me and shook her head as other commuters gawked at me with confusion/disdain. :D

[Gormy Cuss]

13. Somehow I just knew that you were one of those boys..

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It was my station for years too.

I don't recall hearing that the glove cycle was a memorial piece although at least one worker did die during the construction at Harvard Square. I don't remember a group dying at once though. Porter Square was a huge challenge from an engineering standpoint and there was a great photo essay in Boston magazine showing the main bore at different stages.

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15. I'll have to ask my dad about it

I think he's the one who told me about it - the collapse that killed workers.

I'll have to go visit the station, because I think there's a plaque there. Maybe it's an urban legend, or maybe I'm just imagining it. :shrug:

[bicentennial_baby]

16. I swear there was a plaque there when we went...

Weird.

[Gormy Cuss]

21. It's the group thing that I don't recall.

There may have been a single death at Porter too but I can't remember a group. I was living in the nbhd when the construction was going on and you'd think that it would stick out in my mind but memory is a funny thing. The one in the Harvard dig was a big deal although I can't remember why exactly.


on edit: now this is bugging me so I went hunting for an answer and haven't found one yet. I did find that the name of the red mobile outside is "Gift of the Wind." Gift, my eye. Every time there was a lot of wind and those foolish pointed crabs would hit horizontal I was afraid that they'd go flying off and impale a nearby building.

[billyskank]

18. Well, I guess I don't have a favourite, but I think all tube lines are interesting.

There is just something about being so far underground; you can be 200 feet below the surface or more. And the reason it is called the 'tube' is because the tunnels are cylinders with special trains that fit just inside them with hardly any gap to spare. It is probably not very good if you are claustrophobic. But I find them so much more interesting than shallow sub-surface cut-and-cover tunnels.

[deucemagnet]

19. The Bonn Hauptbahnhof

There's nothing special about it really, apart from the fact that I've embarked upon many a youthful adventure from this location.