Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". Such a station can be elevated, underground, or about ground level depending on the level of the train tracks. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level. There are entrances/exits at ground/street level, often with stairs or sometimes ramps or escalators leading to any elevated or lowered track level area.
At street level the logo of the metro company marks the entrance of the station, along with the schematics of the services at the station. Some metro operators also post the station name at the station entrance. Often there are several entrances for one station, saving one from having to cross the street. In such a case, tunnels or overhead stations can often also be used just to cross the street.
In some cases metro stations are connected to important buildings by a direct enclosed hallway (see underground city).
Rapid transit
Rapid transit, also known as metro, subway or underground is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. Unlike buses or trams, rapid transit systems are electric railways that operate on an exclusive right-of-way, which cannot be accessed by pedestrians or other vehicles of any sort, and which is often grade separated in tunnels or on elevated railways.
Modern services on rapid transit systems are provided on designated lines between stations typically using electric multiple units on rail tracks, although some systems use guided rubber tyres, magnetic levitation, or monorail. The stations typically have high platforms, without steps inside the trains, requiring custom-made trains in order to avoid gaps. They are typically integrated with other public transport and often operated by the same public transport authorities. However, some rapid transit systems have at-grade intersections between a rapid transit line and a road or between two rapid transit lines. It is unchallenged in its ability to transport large numbers of people quickly over short distances with little use of land. Variations of rapid transit include people movers, small-scale light metro, and the commuter rail hybrid S-Bahn.
Rapid transit (disambiguation)
A rapid transit is a public transport system in an urban area with high capacity, high frequency not needing timetables, is fast and is segregated from other traffic.
Rapid transit may also refer to:
See also
Rapid Transit (play)
Rapid Transit was a play by Lajos Egri that premiered at the Provincetown Playhouse, New York, in April 1927 and closed before the end of the month after 20 performances. Horace Liveright had bought and produced this work. Egri's expressionist play was translated from his original Hungarian by Gustav Davidson and Francis Edwards Faragoh, and adapted by Charles Recht.
Casting about for some adequate means of conveying a sense of the hectic pace of this machine age, Egri pictured a world in which all of life is compressed into twenty-four hours. Children grow to maturity in a few minutes; meals are eaten in split seconds; tabloid newspapers are issued at intervals of a second or two, and the loss of half a minute is a serious matter.
Realizing that this notion alone was not quite sufficient to carry a play, Egri broadened his vision to afford a comprehensive view of the world's front page. Wars and justice, taxes and public opinion: all of these Egri incorporated in a manner that was a hallmark of expressionistic drama. Rapid Transit had a prologue and six scenes. There were almost seventy cast members. The sets conveyed an impression of cogwheels, greasy steel pistons, chains, derricks, clanking, rumbling, thumping. The tempo was blinding.
Station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture and geography
Communications
- Amateur radio station, a station operating on frequencies allocated for ham or other non-commercial use
- Broadcasting station, a station intended for reception by the general public
- Broadcast relay station
- Earth station, a terrestrial radio station for extraplanetary telecommunication with satellites or spacecraft
- Radio station, an audio radio broadcasting station (common usage)
- Television station
Podcasts:
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by Dilated Peoples
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by Neil Young
RAPID TRANSIT
by: Dilated PeoplesLadies and gentlemen
Dilated Peoples and all that
Everywhere we go now
Pack your bags, we goin' on a long trip man, guess what? We all
We all, all around the world
Worldwide, Dilated Peoples, Strong Arm Steady, let's go
All the people know now
Krondon, Phil the Agony, everybody around the world
International, domestic, Chicago, Ohio, Seattle
(Move through the city like rapid transit)
Everywhere we go now, I'm dead serious
You fuckin? with "The Best Damn Rap Show? period
Go strong 'til I'm delirious on the international stage
Like people here it is
Right here
From the LAX, worldwide direct, all the flights connect
Got the right to vote and we'll elect
And these labels can't stand us but give us these checks, yeah
Everywhere we go now
Move through the city, got a crew and tools to use with me
Cats got weak shit, come at me with a better line
I don't respect rappers, I respect Kevin Federline
Karma's good, judge slams the hammer
Got 16 on deck like Joe Montana
Blue states, red states, welcome us back
Every city got a coat rack to hang my hat
Evidence one person hold the weight that many bring
And I stand for somethin', so I don't fall for anythin'
(F'real dawg)
It's in the air tonight, don't ask who planned it
It's Dilated, move through the city like rapid transit
It's Babu, rapid transit, rapid transit, rapid transit
Everywhere we go now
We the rough, tough and dangerous
The hardest working artist can't hang with us
All around the world
In 80 days from LA
Tell them have nots to have it your way, get it
All the people know now
From NY to PA
ATL, DC to VA, c'mon
Everywhere we go
Competition can't spit
So Dilated run through 'em like rapid transit
Everywhere we go now
Hit the marathon runnin?
Got a hundred done, another hundred's comin?
(More bars)
I got shit to show for it
Wear my heart on my sleeve, just got my jacket over it
Plus I spit that hot shit
A hundred ten percent, less is not an option
I work the angles, no handouts or freebies
So when we in your town, get tickets to see me
This is Nissan truck hop
I bombed the RTD driver's side then hit the bus stop
Create to devastate, scene from New York
Hit the Hollywood sign in LA
And it feels like yesterday that shit amazed me
Cheech Wizard kickin? the lizard, that shit was crazy
In the grass grazin?, now it's kush y'all
Packin? more bowls than college football
But still lively
Poker face, playin? my cards like Phil Ivey
Rock the Dilated, rapid fire how I transmit
Babu!
Move through the city like rapid transit
Move through the city like rapid transit
Everywhere we go now
We the rough, tough and dangerous
The hardest workin' artist can't hang with us
All around the world
In 80 days from LA
Tell them have nots to have it your way, get it
All the people know now
Amsterdam to Iran
Italy, Germany and Japan, c'mon
Everywhere we go
Competition can't spit
So Dilated run through 'em like rapid transit
Everywhere we go now
We the rough, tough and dangerous
The hardest workin' artist can't hang with us
All around the world
In 80 days from LA
Tell them have nots to have it your way, get it
All the people know now
MIA to the Bay, the T Dot, ST and UK , c'mon
Competition can't spit
So Dilated run through 'em like rapid transit
Everywhere we go now
That's right, everywhere we go it's all love, Dilated People
Whenever we in Detroit, Hawaii, Texas
Las Vegas or Phoenix, Minnesota
You know what I'm sayin'? Connecticut, KC
Definitely St. Louis, Rhode Island
Philly, New England, Canada
You know all my Boston cats
Especially overseas when we go to New Zealand
Or Switzerland or someth'
Croatia, rollin' up a backwood
Out in Sweden and Norway, Jamaica, Africa
Ay, what happened to all my Spanish cats?
You know what I'm sayin', Puerto Rico, Mexico
Phil the Agony, be back man