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What do people in LA call the subway?

The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California in the United States.



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subway, also called underground, tube, or métro, underground railway system used to transport large numbers of passengers within urban and suburban areas.

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Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be called a subway, tube, or underground.

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In terms of strict dictionary definitions, both terms imply underground trains. Subway is a generic term, but metro is more localized to certain cities.

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Here, Archer Hotel New York's consummate host offers timely tips on navigating the New York City subway (aka train) system like a boss. LOCAL TIP: New Yorkers typically call the subway “trains” (not underground or metro) or by their alpha name (the C or the Q).

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The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.

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There are only two subway lines in L.A., one of which shares most of its stops with the other.

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A city's underground railway system is usually called the underground (often the Underground) in British English and the subway in North American English. Speakers of British English also use subway for systems in American cities and metro for systems in other European countries.

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subway, also called underground, tube, or métro, underground railway system used to transport large numbers of passengers within urban and suburban areas.

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In America the first metro was built in New York, and it was called SUBWAY because it was built mostly under the streets (sub= under / way= road), since Manhattan street plan is quite a regular grill and it was easy to do so.

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State law created the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) to oversee funding and coordination of all public transportation services within Los Angeles County.

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Paris Metro (Métro in French, Subway or Underground in English) is the fastest way of getting around the city.

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The British call cookies biscuits. They occasionally use the word cookie in the context of using Americanisms like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, or that's the way the cookie crumbles.

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We normally refer to the London Underground as the Underground, but if you say the Tube, people will understand you mean the Underground.

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LOCAL TIP: New Yorkers typically call the subway “trains” (not underground or metro) or by their alpha name (the C or the Q).

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Since then the Underground network, affectionately nicknamed the Tube by generations of Londoners, has grown to 272 stations and 11 lines stretching deep into the Capital's suburbs and beyond.

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