Metro station or subway station is a station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway".
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23 Facts About Metro station
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Location of a metro station is carefully planned to provide easy access to important urban facilities such as roads, commercial centres, major buildings and other transport nodes.
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The bulk of the Metro station is typically positioned under land reserved for public thoroughfares or parks.
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Usually, signage shows the name of the Metro station and describes the facilities of the Metro station and the system it serves.
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Metro station typically provides ticket vending and ticket validating systems.
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The Metro station is divided into an unpaid zone connected to the street, and a paid zone connected to the train platforms.
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The Metro station will be designed to minimise overcrowding and improve flow, sometimes by designating tunnels as one way.
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The tunnel for Paris' Concorde Metro station is decorated with tiles spelling the Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen.
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Alameda Metro station is decorated with fragments of white tile, like the dominant style of the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies.
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Every station of the Mexico City Metro is prominently identified by a unique icon in addition to its name, because the city had high illiteracy rates at the time the system was designed.
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Such a dual hall, one-span Metro station, Kashirskaya, was constructed to provide a convenient cross-platform transfer.
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Typical shallow column Metro station has two vestibules at both ends of the Metro station, most often combined with below-street crossings.
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Many metro systems outside Russia, the typical column station is a two-span station with metal columns, as in New York City, Berlin, and others.
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The Saint Petersburg Metro has only five shallow-depth stations altogether, with three of them having the column design: Avtovo, Leninsky Prospekt, and Prospekt Veteranov.
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Deep column Metro station is a type of subway Metro station consisting of a central hall with two side halls connected by ring-like passages between a row of columns.
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Fundamental advantage of the column Metro station is the significantly greater connection between the halls, compared with a pylon Metro station.
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Pylon Metro station is a type of deep underground subway Metro station.
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The basic distinguishing characteristic of the pylon Metro station is the manner of division of the central hall from the Metro station tunnels.
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Tai Koo Metro station on Hong Kong Island is an example of a Metro station built in a man-made cavern.
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Southernmost metro station is the Buenos Aires Underground's Plaza de los Virreyes - Eva Peron metro station in Argentina, at.
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MARTA rail Civic Center Metro station located in the United States is the only one built on a highway overpass elevated while being underground.
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