The Washington Metro is an excellent system. The trains are quiet and spacious compared to many other cities. The stations are intelligently laid out and transfers are easy. None of the long walks found in New York, Paris, Tokyo or London. It's cheap. The stations all have the same look, as you see here: concrete honeycomb rounded vaults, often much higher than they need to be, lit from beneath with very dim platforms. It is unusually quiet. A colleague wondered if it was designed for crowd control, to soothe the commuting masses. I find the stations at once spooky and magnificent.
If your system has a metro or subway, what are the esthetics like?
By the way, there is a folder of pictures I took in Washington on Flickr here.
TOMORROW: The Thursday Arch series takes a break. Instead, more from Washington.
If your system has a metro or subway, what are the esthetics like?
By the way, there is a folder of pictures I took in Washington on Flickr here.
TOMORROW: The Thursday Arch series takes a break. Instead, more from Washington.
