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   John Levine to All   
   Re: Old bus and subway stations   
   21 Apr 14 22:58:26   
   
   From: johnl@iecc.com   
      
   >> City transit systems have numerous offstreet terminal facilities.   
      
   >What about telling the truth for a change?  City buses stop all over the   
   >place and having ridden them many years, I never saw even a shelter in NYC.   
      
   You must not have been looking very hard.  There are subway stations   
   with attached bus stations, like this one:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Avenue_/_74th_Street_(Ne   
   _York_City_Subway)#Victor_A._Moore_Bus_Terminal   
      
   It really exists.  I've used it on the way to and from LGA.   
      
   Or here's a bus shelter in the Bronx, with ticket machines:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Select_Bus_Service_bus_shelter.jpg   
      
   Here's one in midtown:   
      
   http://publictransport.about.com/od/Pictures_Of_Transit/ig/Trans   
   t-Pictures-From-New-York/New-York-Bus-Shelter.htm   
      
   And here's one in Brooklyn:   
      
   http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/blog-tells-the-tale   
   of-a-bus-shelter-destroyed/   
      
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   John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",   
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