A Report on New York City Subway

Beginning in June of 1952, when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was founded, advances in transportation in New York City have improved the city’s developing economy and have benefitted people to a great extent. Located in the heart of Manhattan, the MTA headquarters are home to hundreds of different vehicles, ridden by thousands daily. The train tracks and bus routes run through Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx, unifying all five boroughs and improving the lives of everyone

Improving transit will reduce commute time and amount of cars on the road. Toronto is ranked 47th worst traffic in the world. This means that Toronto has a real traffic problem. We must improve the system. This means, having better bus routes and more buses, more subway lines. Toronto currently has only 4 subway lines. This is nothing compared to New York with 34 lines. If our transit

The hidden purpose of the subway system which Jurgis helps to construct is to break the teamsters’ union. Because Jurgis got hit by one of the rail freight cars, he broke his arm and lost his job.

The New York City Subway System has an extremely rich and detailed history that dates to the late nineteenth century. Before the system that the public currently takes advantage of when they visit New York City, there were an extensive amount of public transportation options that were available to the general public. For example, horse and carriages, omnibuses, and trolley systems were all used as a means of transportation throughout the nineteenth century. Once the idea for a subway system to be built was introduced, most people did not believe that it was possible. However, they were soon proven wrong after Alfred E. Beach secretly built the first subway system that was used in New York City. Once people saw that subterranean travel was a viable means of transportation, it did not take long until the subway system that is used today to come along. The New York City subway system revolutionized the way the general public traveled throughout the city, and inspired other growing cities to build subterranean travel systems of their own.

Riding the subway to a New York City resident is nothing new. It’s something that many of us New Yorkers have to use as transportation because living in a crowded city with limited space to drive is not very ideal. For the people who do drive, they do so for personal comfort and convenience. But for us commuters, having to not look for parking and worry about traffic takes up less of our time. On the other hand we experience train delays and disturbances in personal space. Nonetheless, the pros outweigh the cons and using the subway has become a part of our daily routines for many of us New Yorkers. Marc Auge states that, “If he draws himself into the field of his ethnological inquiry, it is no less fitting for his readers to broaden the scope of appreciation of the work for riders.” With that in mind, I observed the connections with my experience riding the subway in a city integrated with many different peoples and cultures.

The City of Chicago has developed several programs that address the issue of transportation. In the city, problems associated with transportation include

On the story of “On the Subway” the author Sharon Olds describes the main character in depth. The author uses imagery and symbolism as the techniques that describe the main character.

In "On the Subway," Sharon Olds brings two worlds into close proximity by using the narrator to compare herself to another being. The narrator is wearing a dark fur coat and is a white female. The other subject is a black male who has huge feet, wears black sneakers laced with white, has the casual cold look of a mugger, has a raw face, wears red, and has a dark soul according to the narrator. The contrast between both portraits is distinctive and significant. The narrator, who has a nervous and scared tone, seems to observe the boy in detail.

A New York Daily News editorial “Dumb as a Doornail” commented “to contemplate this nonsense [of installing protective barriers on subway platforms] is self-evidently a waste of time and money” when that idea first introduced in 2011. The editorial also wrote that “the risks of [death and disfigurement] are far too minuscule to justify all the expense and effort”. Likewise, Jennifer Peltz in “After NYC subway deaths, barriers get new eye” reported that “the challenges [of installing the barriers into the long-established subway system] would be considerable” because of “the widely varying architecture” and “the different types of trains”. Oppositely, Peltz reported that Japan with a long-established subway system has managed to successfully

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Nevertheless, these metro transportations have a time on their own, and if you do not arrive on time it will leave you behind and must wait till the next on. For those students who depend on this transportation, this is crucial because metros do run on their schedule and cannot wait on no one because they have to keep going. As a teacher I am going to have to understand these type of situations for students. Students may arrive late to class, or for those students who live far have to spend most of their afternoon trying to arrive have, and not having enough time to do homework. Another issue that can come in between if days were teachers must talk to parents. If parents do not have no other transportation, then the metro they have to go through the same struggle. It also because a huge struggle if the parents has infants with them. These transportations are very hard to handle with younger children making sure everyone is on and get off at the same

Phoenix is large city in the United States and it is also the biggest city in Arizona. There are lots of who people live, work and study here. Therefore, there are always traffic jams in the rush hours which are morning and afternoon. If the government could improve the public transportation, for example, by adding more buses, there would be fewer people driving cars. According to Tribune (2009) Arizona lobbyists criticize claims that spending more money to improve public transportation is important, not only for creating more jobs, but also for help for reduce traffic, air pollution, and our dependence on oil. This shows that the public transportation here should be improved. Improving public transportation will also be beneficial for citizens in Arizona. It is because there will be fewer traffic jams then people will be taking buses instead of

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For my observation, I decided to sit in the Subway at Walmart in Linda. The objects that I was focusing on were the registers and how the key consultants acted when they were there. In the Subway restaurant, it was moderately quiet. I could hear conversations from just outside the restaurant and could vaguely hear the cashiers at the registers. The store was very well lit and pretty crowded. I was sitting at the table closest to the entrance and was able to see a couple of the registers before the customers headed for the exit. I decided this would be a good place because I would be able to see people after they've been in the store for a long time.

The first Subway was founded in 1965. The founder of the Subway chain, Fred De Luca, started running his restaurant business when he was only 17 years old. The first Subway restaurant was opened nine years after its foundation in Connecticut where the headquarter is now situated.