Why do people call a subway a metro? I thought metro was short for metropolis, which is another name for city. Why does every city with a subway system insist on just calling it "the metro?"
2007-12-09 15:57:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Rail
The name 'metro' derives from the very first 'underground' railways built in London (England) called the Metropolitan Railway and the Metropolitan District Railway. They were started in the 1860s to serve the city - the 'metropolitan' area. Both remain as part of London Underground as the Metropolitan line and the District line. A report from the Times newspaper concerning the opening of the 'Met' can be found at:- http://mateengreenway.com/steampunk/MetropolitanRailway.htm
2007-12-09 23:36:31 · answer #1 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do you call a Metro subway like a sandwich company?
Metro is the shortform of metropolitan trains, this means those trains are not part of the general RR system.
2007-12-10 05:13:10 · answer #2 · answered by finestrat1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't. It's called different things in different places. In New York, almost everyone refers to it as the subway. In DC it's the metro, in London they call it the underground.
2007-12-09 16:05:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Yorkers call it the subway. relating a subway simply by fact the 'metro' is a D.C. and Paris element. Chicagoans call it the 'el', Bostonians the 't', and San Franciscans the 'bart', and Londonites the 'tube'.
2016-12-31 04:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by regula 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, that one guy was right, it's the "metro" in Washington DC...and Paris, France I think. It's the "subway" in New York.
2007-12-09 17:25:33 · answer #5 · answered by xckid62 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ANother early system to use the word "metropolitain" was the RATP in Paris.
In the UK a subway is what in the US you'd call an underpass.
2007-12-10 04:31:00 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen Allcroft 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
metro is english n subway is american
2007-12-09 16:09:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it travels within a metropolitan area (within the city).
2007-12-09 16:05:25 · answer #8 · answered by Joe B. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all the other good names were taken
2007-12-10 00:43:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋