From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 7:21:02 AM UTC-5, Chris Thompson wrote:   
   > On 2/18/2015 4:04 PM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
      
   > > The WABC traffic reporter was saying for a couple of hours this afternoon   
   > > "Uptown 1 trains are running express from 96th St. to City College because   
   of a rail   
   > > condition at Cathedral Parkway." Does anyone actually use those names,   
   rather   
   > > than simply saying 137th and 110th?   
   >   
   > I've heard the occasional conductor include those names, but sadly it's   
   > becoming less and less common.   
      
   "Sadly"? It was an innovation not too many years ago to add such things on   
   the maps and to make the neighborhood the principal information on the   
   destination signs.   
      
   If I had a need to get from Eighth Ave. to First Ave., I wouldn't need to   
   know, or think, I was heading for Canarsie.   
      
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