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• n  an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
  in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'

• Since each metro area has its own characteristics there's a lot more land to build on in Oklahoma City than there is in Oakland, Calif.
• A metro train enters a station of Pyongyang's subway.
• Other metro cities like Kolkata and Bangalore have been holding Queer Pride marches for a couple of years now, but this was the first in Delhi, considered more conservative than .

• tube
• underground
• subway system
• subway

News & Articles

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• Metro Bus Has Oil Leak, Emits Cloud Of Smoke
  Metro officials say a bus had an oil leak which caused a huge cloud of smoke to be emitted, and it was all caught on video.
  June 19, 2013 - WUSA 9 Washington, D.C.
• Metro Bancorp Hits New 52-Week High
  Shares of Metro Bancorp, Inc. hit a new 52-week high, touching $20.54 in the first half of the trading session on Jun 17.
  June 18, 2013 - Zacks via Yahoo! Finance
• Metro drops maligned radio system, inks deal for new one
  Metro Police is officially cutting ties with its controversial radio system after signing a replacement $26.3 million deal with Motorola Solutions announced last week.
  June 18, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun

Quotes

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• Robert Shiller in International Herald Tribune
  Home prices across the nation and in most metro areas are significantly lower than where they were a year ago,said Yale University professor Robert Shiller, one of the index's creators. "Wherever you look, things look bleak."
• Carl Scully in The Age
  I think it's naive to assume that suddenly the building of this metro will mean the attention doesn't have to be given to the existing network,Mr Scully said. "That's my major concern that it'll be seen as a fix and it ain't."
• John Watkins in Sydney Morning Herald
  Mr Watkins said last night that companies from around the world were "lining up to invest here, especially in public transport ...... the $12 billion North West Metro project has attracted worldwide interest."