metros
Underground transit systems
Metros is the plural of metro, referring to urban rapid transit rail systems: The metros of Paris and London are among the world's oldest.
Metro can also mean a metropolitan area: the Dallas-Fort Worth metro.
In either sense, metros describes multiple such systems or regions: European metros tend to have better public transit than American ones.
Underground transit passage
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- tubeHollow cylindrical passage
- commutersDaily work travelers
- rush-hourDaily commute congestion period
passengers · trains · carriages · platforms · stations · tickets · fare · routes
Guiding metal bars
- tunnelsUnderground hollow pathways
- tracksMarks showing passage
- signalingConveying information nonverbally
- electrificationConversion to powered systems
maintenance · engineering · construction · switches · depot · viaducts · terminus · gauge
Central business district
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- diversityState of varied elements
congestion · nightlife · skyscrapers · districts · boroughs · gentrification · urbanization · sprawl
subway
Underground transit passage
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- tubeHollow cylindrical passage
- commutersDaily work travelers
rush-hour · passengers · trains · carriages · platforms · stations · tickets · fare · routes · schedules
rails
Guiding metal bars
- tunnelsUnderground hollow pathways
- tracksMarks showing passage
- signalingConveying information nonverbally
electrification · maintenance · engineering · construction · switches · depot · viaducts · terminus · gauge · ventilation
downtown
Central business district
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
- populationAll inhabitants combined
diversity · congestion · nightlife · skyscrapers · districts · boroughs · gentrification · urbanization · sprawl · megacity
Paris
France's chief city
Madrid · Berlin · Seoul · Singapore · Barcelona · Milan · Shanghai · Beijing · Stockholm · Mumbai
- Dutch-Belgian InfrastructureSchiphol, canals, waterways, dikes, levees
- citiesParis, London, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles
- transportationcar, bus, airplane, train, plane
- city lifecity, urban life, traffic noise, downtown, city life
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, railway expansion, power grid, roads
- public transitbus, train, subway, tram, trolley
metrosbuses
Multi-passenger road vehicles
trams · streetcars · ferries · cable cars · monorails
metrosprivate cars
Individually owned motor vehicles
motorcycles · bicycles · walking · limousines · private jets
- metro areaCity and its suburbs
- metro stationUnderground transit platform
- metropolitan areaCity plus linked suburbs
- metro systemUrban underground railway network
- metro lineUnderground rail service path
- metro passSubway access permit
metro, metropolis, metropolitan, metronome, metroplex, metronomic, metronomically