Should this page perhaps be relocated to
Metro? I am a bit uncertain... --Anders Törlind
nomenclature, again. What about an
entry that begins with the fact that the words "underground" (British), "subway" (American - New York City and some others), and "metro" (French, American - Washington, D.C. and some others) are by way of being TRADE NAMES for the same phenomenon, which are public transportation systems with underground rail lines, though some of them have stretches of surface lines or even elevated lines as well. Set up at least 2 redirect pages, one for Metro and one for Subway. Leave the initial entry where it was. --
MichaelTinkler
Thought as much. Ill do the redirect from
subway then --Anders Törlind
Yay, Wiki at its best!
Does anyone know if the #2 and 3 uses of Underground are derived specifically from the London Underground? When is "Notes from Undergound" (and its concomitant usages of the term) first published? All ideas for expansion of the entry.
Ho hum. I should have known that a list of the worlds
most famous undergrounds would turn into "oh, i'll add my local subway since this is a list". Facing the inevitable, i'll rephrase th listings heading. :-) --Anders Törlind
I removed the list of cities having undergrounds, which was totally worthless in my mind. Reinstate when you feel strongly about it, and state here why a list of all tube in the world is encyclopedia knowledge. Sounds more like the telephone book to me.
More useful may be some notable undergrounds (the first; the biggest; fastest; still operated by horse carriage; etc.) --Robbe
- I thought the purpose of the list was to list the different names of the subway systems. If no one cares about the aliases of such systems then I would propose removing the reference to metro because the name metro does not reflect the underground nature of the railroad like underground or subway do.
- To this i disagree. There is only a need to list the most commonly used names, in the same way as we do not list all translation in all languages to all world in this dictionary. The three most commonly used terms should cover 99% of what readers will search for, of this i am certain. If you wish, a Underground listing page linked from Underground (and vice versa) should do nicely. --Anders Törlind
- I disagree with your assumption. "Underground" and "Metro" should not be listed as the most commonly used names, though this article title uses "underground". If you judge by the number of passengers that call their local mass transit systems, then subway should be the common name by a big margin because there are multiple subway systems in the US and almost all American knows what subway means. Underground? What a strange name! If you judge by the population of the cities which runs a subway systems, then you cannot omit Hong Kong and Tokyo. Are you telling me these wo major cities only consist of 1% of mass transit riders?
- If you were to examine subway and metro, you would experience something interesting. Also, see the first line of the page and underground listing. --Anders Törlind
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