Servais@dormi.zone to YUROP@lemm.ee · 3 months ago[Map] Distribution of metro systems in European countriesdormi.zoneimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down14
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minus-squareDocSportello@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoDidn’t realize until today that basically every other country apart from Germany uses an “M” as a symbol.
minus-squareguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoUK’s got S, M and the Underground roundel. I think it’s interesting that those three different common terms, subway, metro and underground, used globally, all originate from the London Underground in different ways.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoVery little of the Newcastle Metro is underground. Mostly it’s just the bin in Sunderland and Newcastle itself.
minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoCzechia just uses a big down vote. Seems like they’re anti transit.
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Didn’t realize until today that basically every other country apart from Germany uses an “M” as a symbol.
UK’s got S, M and the Underground roundel. I think it’s interesting that those three different common terms, subway, metro and underground, used globally, all originate from the London Underground in different ways.
Very little of the Newcastle Metro is underground. Mostly it’s just the bin in Sunderland and Newcastle itself.
Czechia just uses a big down vote. Seems like they’re anti transit.