On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:37 PM Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

It has almost no actual correlation with ‘ground truth’ other than the names of the stations. IIRC there’s two stations on opposite sides of the map, that are across the street from each other in ‘real life’? (this may actually be an example from another subway system)

I remember reading a time-travel story in which a character from a couple of centuries in the past is standing on a New York subway platform, smugly congratulating himself on finally - after six months - having figured out the system map . . .

[Wish I could remember *anything* else about the story . . . <sigh>]

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