{"id":3425,"date":"2011-09-22T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T00:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2011-09-22T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:25:07","slug":"cities-by-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3425","title":{"rendered":"Cities By Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After being overwhelmed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aparisguide.com\/maps\/metro.gif\">tight weave of the Paris Metro system,<\/a> I dug in a little and found this great comparison of <a href=\"http:\/\/fakeisthenewreal.org\/subway\/\">major world city&#8217;s rail systems <\/a>mapped to the same scale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are Chicago and Paris mapped in a way that makes me feel a little better. Living in Chicago I&#8217;ve gotten used to fewer lines covering a wider area, where the Paris system is complex, it&#8217;s more dense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3431\" title=\"Chicago - CTA\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chicago4a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"285\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3430\" title=\"Paris - RATP\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/paris4a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"98\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In just a few days now I&#8217;ll take the RER to <em>Chatelet les Halles<\/em>, transfer to the 11 (Brown) and take it to the Pyrenees stop. Which is not so bad! After all, I know my way around the Brown line already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being overwhelmed by the tight weave of the Paris Metro system, I dug in a little and found this great comparison of major world city&#8217;s rail systems mapped to the same scale. Here are Chicago and Paris mapped in a way that makes me feel a little better. Living in Chicago I&#8217;ve gotten used&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[269,10,361,355,362],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-chicago","tag-links","tag-maps","tag-paris","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}