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The vast majority of rapid transit systems use 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge.Some of the largest and oldest subway systems in the world use standard gauge in agreement with the country-wide dominant usage for track gauge, e.g. London Underground (1863), Chicago "L" (1892), Vienna Metro (1898), Paris Métro (1900), Berlin U-Bahn (1902), New York City Subway (1904), Stockholm ...
A cortado is a Spanish beverage consisting of espresso mixed with a roughly equal amount of warm milk to reduce the acidity, [1] [2] although the exact ratios have considerable regional variation. [3] The milk in a cortado is steamed, but not frothy and "texturized" as in many Italian coffee drinks. [4] The cortado is commonly served all over ...
The following is a list of all heavy rail rapid transit systems in the United States.It does not include statistics for bus or light rail systems; see: List of United States light rail systems by ridership for light rail systems.
The following is a list of new worldwide metro systems that are currently actively under construction. In some cases it is not clear if the system will be considered a full metro system once it begins operational service. Only metro systems under construction are listed where there are no metro systems currently in operation in the same city.
Chengdu Metro: Wangcong Temple – Lanjiagou: 68.2 km (42.4 mi) [1] 2020 Line 3: Guangzhou Metro: Haibang – Airport North: 68.2 km (42.4 mi) 2005–2024 Line 19: Chengdu Metro: Huangshi to Tianfu: 67 km (42 mi) 2020–2023 Line 1: Qingdao Metro: Dongguozhuang to Wangjiagang 59.82 km (37.17 mi) 2020–2021 Line 18: Guangzhou Metro: Xiancun [2 ...
Metro's retired LRV fleet is the Nippon Sharyo P865/P2020 fleet. Metro’s subway cars, used on the B and D Lines, are 75-foot (22.86 m) electric multiple unit, married-pair cars, powered by electrified third rail consisting of the CRRC HR4000 and the Breda A650 fleet, that typically run in four or six car consists.
A report from the World Bank places the capacity of an MCS at 15,000 to 30,000 p/h/d. [4] For comparison, ridership capacity of more than 30,000 p/h/d has been quoted as the standard for metro or "heavy rail" standards rapid transit systems, [5] while light rail systems have passenger capacity volumes of around 10,000 to 12,000 p/h/d [4] or 12,000 to 18,000 p/h/d. [5]
Cortado is a streaming Java applet for Ogg formats Vorbis, Theora and Kate, μ-law, MJPEG and Smoke (a custom MJPEG variant), released under the GPL.With Cortado a webpage can be set up to download the applet on the fly in the background, providing embedded support for Ogg-based media in Java-enabled web browsers without the need to install further software.