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Re: why Yankee vs Mets baseball games are called ''Subway Series''? |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Apr 30 18:20:57 2006, in response to Re: why Yankee vs Mets baseball games are called ''Subway Series''?, posted by WillD on Sun Apr 30 15:11:36 2006. According to a friend of mine who worked for CTA, Chicagoans refer to their entire system as the "El" since until 1943 there were no subways at all in Chicago. In NY it is common to refer to the whole line as a "subway" even if the outer ends of the line are elevated since NY city has no free standing els any more to speak of with the possible exception of the Franklin Shuttle which is really not an el as such but is mostly in cut or on embankment. In Chicago, as I mentioned before, the opposite is how the lines are popularly referred to. The lines which are predominantly elevated but have underground portions are still referred to as "els." When I was in Philadelphia, I heard one of the locals refer to the Market - Frankford line as the "el" probably to distinguish it from the Broad St Line which is entirely underground except for Fern Rock terminal. If you divide it up percentage wise, most of the lines in NY are undergroung whereas in Chicago, only a small percentage of their lines are true "subways." Interestingly, I have a CTA annual report from 1958 which describes the then newly constructed Congress St Line as a "subway" even though it is in the median of an expressway. Apparently, the CTA used this term because the line is in a cut and although exposed to the air is beneath street level much like the sub surface lines of the London "Underground." |
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