Like all such maps it is stylised for clarity. However, some stations are incredibly close. Charing Cross to Embankment is allegedly just over 100m. Leicester Square to Covent Garden is also another short haul (About 250m). Paying cash for a single journey? That’ll be £5.50 please (~$6.50)
The longest wholly underground stretch is between Kings Cross and Caledonian Road (Approx 1.4 miles by road - not sure of the track distance). There is an unused station between them at York Road which closed in the 1930s but there’s a proposal to reopen that to relieve congestion at Kings Cross so things might change.
PDF (Big - it covers the area inside the M25 and shows the position of all stations on all rail lines - underground, overground & DLR)
And that lower third is pretty much the only place it makes sense to put roads. North of there, there are small settlements that are only accessible by air or rail or ice road. So, “northern Ontario” is anyplace north of Parry Sound, really; but tends to mean places like Timmins, Thunder Bay, and Dryden; all of which look pretty far south in comparison to Ontario as a whole. Perhaps @Muffin, who lives there, could offer a better definition.
I’ve done the Manitoba border to Toronto (including Kenora) more than a few times. It’s about 1600 km (1000 miles), and takes about two-plus days to drive. The scenery is spectacular, but the drive, especially between Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay, is challenging. I’d suggest doing it at least once, because I think you’re missing out on a particularly beautiful part of Canada if you don’t; but after that, you can fly.
At the time I thought she meant that the neighborhood itself was unsafe in general, which she very well could have meant. But in retrospect, seeing how close Shea Stadium was to her apartment, and that Yankee Stadium is also close to a subway stop, making the “neighborhood” theory more moot, I think what she meant was that the subway journey itself would be dangerous at night, since this was 1980s NYC.
“Northern Ontario” is most of Ontario, pretty much the entire province except for the relatively densely populated Quebec City-Windsor corridor—
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. Shea Stadium has always been in Flushing, Queens. Maybe you just had to go to a part of Flushing that wasn’t within walking distance.
It is probably a little of both. If you are already on the same subway line (7) that goes past Shea, it is an easy trip, but to get to Yankee Stadium (which is in a relatively worse neighborhood) it is a MUCH longer subway ride - all the way into Manhattan and then changing to the uptown trains to the Bronx.
I just saw the coördinates for Gilligan’s Island: 10 by 110. Now, obviously it is 110W (which puts it due south from Cooke City Montana or Bisbee Arizona, not too far west of Cabo San Lucas), though it is not clear whether the 10 is N or S, but man, I always pictured it as being much farther west. That is 3000 miles east of Hawai’i. That must have a hell of a fucking storm.
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I still want to know what the deal is with Manitoba and Ontario having a 900 mile long border, but only one through road across it.
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Sometimes we have a second through road, and sometimes we don’t: the 752 km Wapusk Trail.
From da UP: Windy, Minnie, Winni, Thom and Gilla. Then Feb snow and ice to Shamattawa and Fort Severn on the Wapusk (White Bear) winter (ice) road. If you decide to go for a jaunt in your jalopy next January, check for covid-19 travel restrictions. Figure on 150 hours round trip behind the wheel plus food, fuel, sleep, breakdowns, stucks and rests. Here’s the ride and the attitude for driving in the back end of nowhere: https://youtu.be/vtjnoLgeSEM
This will be meaningful to almost no one here, but in the days before Google maps on cell phones, you would find places in Tokyo by navigating from the closest train or subway station. Most streets in Japan don’t have names and the addresses are set for neighborhoods so it can be difficult to get a sense of how neighborhoods connect.
Once I was with a friend in Tokyo and we went to a particular shop which was a 15-minute walk from one station.
He wanted to go to a Mexican restaurant he liked which was a 10-minute walk from the next station. So we walk back to the first station, waited for the train, then ten more minutes. Finally 35 to 40 minutes later we arrived at the restaurant only to discover it was across the intersection from where we started off.
Back on February 27, I gave up too easily on San Marino. The CITY of San Marino IS, in fact, west of Vatican City (12.4473° vs. 12.4534°), though basically it is north of it. I had lazily stopped at checking the coordinates for the two countries, which I understand are based on their geographic centers, forgetting that the Most Serene Republic of San Marino is more than its capital city, while Vatican City State is not than its.
My sister loved the Bingoya store, but it was really hard to find back when she was there (like the early 70s). When I had a cow-orker who was going to be there for a few years (her husband worked for Disney, and he would be working on Japanese Disneyland), I told her about Bingoya. When she got back, she told me there was now a subway stop right outside the store, so easy-peasy. My sister was a little po’d.
