What’s a “Subway”? 
Jake in Durham
I stole my mom’s old NYC tokens (the kind that were smaller then a dime with a Y punched out of them) when I was in high school, and make jewelry out of them. A necklace and an anklet. It was great, to the non-New Yorkers they looked like chinese coins or something, and New Yorkers always looked twice, scrunched up their faces and said “Are those subway tokens from the City from, like, 15 years ago?”
On a side note, yes, New York is known as the City here in Burlington, even though both Montreal and Boston are WAY closer.
And as with so many aestetic issues, I’m with Eve.
Dunno. Something to do with sandwiches, I think.
Drewbert in Nashville
So tourists who just want one token have to get a card with one fare? I agree with Eve that tokens are quaint. I love em.
I’ve heard tell of these “subways,” too. Supposedly, there are trains that travel underground and practically a whole subterranean world of shops and stuff. Sounds like another “moon landing” to me.
Plnnr in Richmond (where the first electric street car was installed - now that was travel).
Yay for T-Tokens!
Still going strong here in Beantown…
Are these subway thingies anything like mines, we used to have mines y’know, lots of them, but they’re all dirty industrial places and not a bit like the modern financial services offices or call centres which are so essential to a national economy these days.
I use the subway everyday and thanks to my Transit Chek Metrocard I haven’t stood on a line in the subway for over two years. With unlimited rides, I never have a need to know how much money is on my card.
Transit Chek: one of the perks of a gov’t job 
I rarely get the “swipe again” message.
I have never lost a metrocard.
Metrocards rock
This is probably more common than you would think, but after 9/11 our receptionist sent an ergent e-mail to the office staff. She was horrified that terrorists just bombed a bus “on the west coast”. It was actually the West Bank. West coast, West Bank. Terrorism sucks.