Inside a New York Subway Station
New York City is a massive city of around eight million people. The city is very well planned as you can see from the maps, the streets after very neatly organized in a grid pattern. It is not very difficult to get a bearing on which direction to walk to since a lot of the streets are numbers. The main backbone of New York City is the New York City Subway. This is a massive network of trains running under the city. A look at the subway map is not enough to figure out which train to take. Often times, there would be transfers but you still need to know which station to get off on.
Walking Along the Platform at a New York Subway Station
Subways I have taken in other parts of the world have been quite straightforward to use but this one is a totally different level. The trains weren’t very new and the stations themselves were very old. It is amazing that they still function. There are no electronic billboards which tell you which trains are not running. There are however paper signs which are pasted somewhere in the station. You need to pay attention to these else you might be waiting for nothing. My friend and I found ourselves getting lost in the subways despite boarding at the correct station, but later on finding out that the direction which we wanted to go to wasn’t operating so we needed to take an uptown train to transfer to get to the downtown station. I suspect there should be several thousand people lost in the subway system at any given time.
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