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The extreme agita I get when someone in Manhattan, giving subway directions, says 'take the blue line' -- nm

Posted by ty97 Mar 2 '20, 20:44

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So far, we only have one line. A second will soon open, so they gave the first one the name "red line". - psilotum Mar 2, 21:34 5
- I think it was LA where they were going to build a Yellow Line through predominantly Asian American neighborhoods, that didn’t go over well. -- nm - znufrii, Italian baseball player Mar 3, 04:43 2
  - Atlanta. It got called the Gold Line -- nm - Roger More Mar 3, 04:50 1
    - Right. Thx. -- nm - znufrii, Italian baseball player Mar 3, 05:01
- That seems a bit overboard - ty97 Mar 2, 22:06
- I live in Chicago where we have a Red Line and redlining may have started. -- (edited) - . Mar 2, 21:44
That's someone that's either not from here or hasn't lived here more than a couple of days and shouldn't be giving directions. Color is meaningless! -- nm* - Krusty Mar 2, 20:47 9
- I'm like "this is not Chicago!" The A C and E go all kinds of different places from each other! -- nm - ty97 Mar 2, 20:51 4
  - Meh. I’ve always find this a weird complaint. If you’re being asked it’s most likely by a tourist and then most likely to a place where the lines do g - JackDawson Mar 3, 05:01
  - The lines in Chicago used to have names but then they changed the names and then changed the names to colors. -- nm - . Mar 2, 22:02 1
    - 1993 -- nm - . Mar 2, 23:12
  - Seriously. They all end up in different boroughs -- nm - Krusty Mar 2, 20:53
- Sounds like DC Metro talk. -- nm - Max Mar 2, 20:50 3
  - The letters and numbers for the trains have colored backgrounds but they're basically meaningless. As Ty mentioned, the A,C and E trains have - Krusty Mar 2, 20:58 2
    - The C doesn't go to the Bronx (Krusty got something wrong about the subway! Everyone smite him!) -- nm - ty97 Mar 2, 21:07 1
      - It did originally, maybe he’s a time traveler -- nm - znufrii, Italian baseball player Mar 3, 04:23

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