Comments on: Berlin U-Bahn Stop

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:19:13 +0000

NYC when I was a child on my mandatory annual custody visitation to my birth father’s home. I loved the subway. For a California kid, it was so alien. Plus, I was young enough not to notice/remember the smells!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:42:19 +0000

My first subway ride was in Manhattan. I didn’t get to go on it when I first visited the city in ’05 but a year later, and with a client who was as big an advocate of public transit as I am, I got my chance. We took a bus first and then linked to the subway to get to our hotel straight from the airport!

Later, we had taken a taxi into Little Italy (actually two taxis as there were 7 of us in all) and we half-walked half-trained our way up to Ground Zero. We boarded the subway there again to get back to our hotels.

Not as scary of an experience as I’d anticipated (thankfully) but still not for the faint of heart or for those with ultra-sensitive olfactory systems. (Several of our fellow riders smelled like they hadn’t bathed in weeks and this was in 90-degree June weather.)

By: jja

jja — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:03:42 +0000

First underground was in Italy. My first trip abroad alone and without parents+car.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:35:29 +0000

My first subway ride was in New York City on a school trip when I was in 8th grade. That was almost 20 years ago and it was a little scary down there!

Now I take the subway frequently in Taipei. It is beautiful and clean, full of natural light from skylights and original sculptures by local artists–and it has CLEAN bathrooms! Just today, the subway took myself, my son’s kindergarten class, and about a dozen other moms on a field trip to a famous park, the National Museum of Taipei, and the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial, among other stops.

I think my favorite subway system is Hong Kong’s–it’s so extensive and is also clean. It has the added bonus of being connected through underground tunnels to many shopping areas and other attractions, which is great when the weather is really hot and/or rainy.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:41:16 +0000

Oh wow, Cathryn. That’s quite the story. I cannot even imagine.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:59:14 +0000

I THINK my first subway ride was in college. A friend had driven across two states to see me and we were going to explore the east coast (US). Naturally we stopped in NY for a while and at one point during the ride, as my friend was managing the maps, she suddenly realized we needed to get off right before the doors were about to close. That was the closest I’ve ever been to being dragged down the tracks!