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quote: Originally posted by mariposita:
You can tell from the list which direction the train is going.
Thanks, one less thing to be concerned about. I need to take the #6 Metro one stop and transfer to the #1 to get to my hotel. I sure don't want to get on the wrong Metro and have to make the circle. Thanks again.......... |
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| Posts: 24 | Location: USA | Registered: 01 February 2007 | |
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quote: Originally posted by herbf:
I sure don't want to get on the wrong Metro and have to make the circle.
Thanks again..........
You could always get off and change trains!  You'll never use line 12 anyway, it's a local line for local people (people who watch British comedy might get that reference). The Madrid system is a lot easier than the London one. Trying returning to London after two years in Madrid - you get more than one line on the same platform in London, and a number of lines split in two. As the Madrid metro is simply a matter of finding the right platform and jumping on the first metro you see, I tried doing that in London and found myself in random destinations I wasn't aiming for! This happened a lot when i saw the doors closing - I would run and jump on a la Madrid and end up in somewhere like Edgware.
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| Posts: 345 | Location: a town in La Mancha I'd prefer not to recall | Registered: 22 February 2004 | |
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quote: You'll never use line 12 anyway
Damian, This is not necessarily true. If he wants to go to IKEA and doesn't have a car, he will need line 12 and walk about 12 - 15 minutes to get there. I used it several times and enjoyed it. Many people, especially immigrants, go to IKEA on the weekends and you should see the amount of things that people transport on the metro. It's amazing. Shawn
"Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down" - SONG OF SOLOMON, Toni Morrison
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| Posts: 1241 | Location: Richmond, VA but in MADRID now | Registered: 10 February 2002 | |
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i do have a car and i still used line 12 once when it was new to go to "fuenlabrada" to a small cd shop where they were supposed to be selling U2 tix a few years back. ena was in the north with the car at another music store trying to score tix at the same time. god knows that ONLY U2 would ever get me to a god-forsaken place like fuenlabrada   the stop was "fuenlabrada central" and is about the furthest stop on line 12 from the "puerta del sur". i found the line to be very efficient and clean as a whistle since it was brand spankin new. saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12202 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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Redwood, I didn't mean nobody would use line 12, but someone on holiday in Spain, on his way to visiting someone in Gijon, is unlikely to want to go to Ikea! Damian
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| Posts: 345 | Location: a town in La Mancha I'd prefer not to recall | Registered: 22 February 2004 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Cervantes:
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...I tried doing that in London and found myself in random destinations I wasn't aiming for! This happened a lot when i saw the doors closing - I would run and jump on a la Madrid and end up in somewhere like Edgware.
that sounds alot like the renfe line, good god I got soooo lost when I first got here, keep winding up in the middle of nowhere, the lines and trains are not very clearly marked, it took me months to get my bearings  On the other hand the metro is super easy to figure out, had that down in a few days
formerly timhortonsman
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| Posts: 361 | Location: Tres Cantos | Registered: 29 June 2006 | |
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