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The interesting question isn't 'how', it's why. E.g. one of the 'metro's in the UK is a tram system in Manchester. And the one thing people might call a 'metro
by ljm 5y ago
The interesting question isn't 'how', it's why.
E.g. one of the 'metro's in the UK is a tram system in Manchester. And the one thing people might call a 'metro', when compared to other cities and countries is the London Underground, which everyone including the government[1] calls The Tube. And that's just a red ring with a blue line through it.
The more I think about it, the more bizarre it makes us Brits sound. Tubes, choobs, toobays...
[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/tube/ https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/tube/
- ldjb 5y agoThe London Underground is the world's oldest underground railway. The very first line to be built was the Metropolitan Railway (now called the Metropolitan line), which opened in 1863. So in a sense, you could say London was the first city to name their underground railway after the term "metropolitan".
- sverhagen 5y agoIn Dutch, "metro" refers to the underground, the subway. In the US it's the multi-modal metropolitan passenger transport system of a city or a region.