Subway News
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Seattle -
Police in West Seattle are looking for a man who removed a toilet at a Subway restaurant on Sunday night. He also trashed the bathroom.
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New York -
A piece of subway track that snapped and caused a derailment that injured 19 people under New York City on Friday was new and had been installed just weeks before the accident, officials said Saturday.
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Seoul -
Two subway trains collided in Seoul on Friday, lightly injuring 200 people and further undermining public confidence just weeks after South Korea's ferry disaster claimed the lives of hundreds of schoolchildren.
In the Media
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Although there are no commercial breaks in video games, there is no shortage of advertising and product placement within the gaming world.
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Fast-food sandwich giant Subway, one of the world's biggest bakers, will remove an internationally banned chemical used to make shoe rubber from its bread following the launch of a food blogger's petition.
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New York -
Run DMC's Jam Master Jay will always be remembered as one of the most influential DJs in the history of hip-hop, and judging from a recent ride on a New York City subway, it looks like Jay passed his skills onto his son.
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Madrid -
Commonly called the "No Pants Subway Ride", the idea apparently started in New York in 2002, and has caught on and become an annual event in Madrid, Spain.
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Madrid -
While the fact that it was Monday morning was quite bad enough, at 9:40 a.m. Madrid time, one of the subway trains on Madrid metro line 5 ground to a halt for over an hour-and-a-half, trapping the commuters inside, sometimes in the pitch dark.
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New York -
The dead shark that was found riding the N train in NYC Wednesday morning started his journey on the beaches of Coney Island.
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Two workers at a Subway fast food chain in Columbus, Ohio, have been fired after one posted to Instagram a photo of himself placing and rubbing his penis on the restaurant's sandwich bread and another a photo of his frozen urine.
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New York -
The answer is nothing too bad. Scientists have found that the microbial population in the air of the New York City subway system is close to the air on the city streets.
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New York -
A man was electrocuted early Friday morning at the Times Square subway station when he jumped onto the tracks and touched the electrified third rail, police said.
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The story of a gay couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a Manhattan subway station 12 years ago has touched the hearts of thousands. Peter Mercurio tells the story in a New York Times Opinionator article "We Found Our Son in the Subway."
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Angers -
A Subway sandwich restaurant in the city of Angers, Pays de la Loire was forced to close after its posters advertising Valentine’s day ‘specials’ were slammed as being homophobic and caused outrage on social media.
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During excavation work for a new subway system in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, an ancient gold wreath has been found, another of many similar finds in recent years.
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Philadelphia -
CCTV footage shows a man grabbing a 23-year-old woman by the ankles and throwing her onto the tracks at the SEPTA subway, 8th and Race streets in Philadelphia's Chinatown Tuesday. The man asked the woman for a light but suddenly attacked her.
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Matt Corby's Facebook post of a Subway foot-long sandwich with a tape measure that only measures 11 inches has sparked outrage from Subway customers online, particularly in the company's official Facebook page.
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Cologne -
Earlier this week, a new underground train line became operational in Cologne, Germany. Since then, Germany's most famous landmark, Cologne Cathedral, is "under stress" in what can only be called "bad vibrations."
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An altercation at a subway terminal causes one man to stun another man with a wrestling power bomb. In the video, a uniformed officer or a transit worker on the job simply watches the altercation take place.
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New York -
On December 27, a man was pushed to his death at a subway station by a female suspect at a station in Queens, NY. This makes it the second time, after the death of Ki-Suk Han, that someone died in this manner in December.
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New York -
The New York Post is coming under heavy fire for it's decision to print the photo of a man clinging to the side of subway tracks just seconds before an oncoming train hit him.
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Guangzhou -
A Chinese pensioner, 67, launched a violent attack on a younger man on Guangzhou's subway, biting into the flesh of his arm and drawing a copious flow of blood during a fight over subway seat Monday.
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New York -
A kid was dared to lick an entire subway rail, in New York City, for just a buck. The rail was located right at the entrance of the subway.
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New York -
An NYPD officer is recuperating at a local hospital after he was knocked unconscious while attempting to remove an emotionally disturbed man from the train tracks at the Times Square subway station yesterday morning.
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Cambridge -
CCTV cameras in the Boston-area subway caught the scene as a woman walks off the platform, falling on the tracks, holding her 4-year-old child. Commuters came to the rescue.
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The fast-food chain Subway is talking about opening up a location in a secondary school in located in Manchester, England.
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Archaeologists in Greece discovered a 230-foot section of an ancient road that the Romans built. The road was uncovered in Greece's second-largest city.
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London -
A woman shown in a recent YouTube video clip hurling racist abuse at Asian passengers on the London Underground has appeared in court and now faces jail sentence after she admitted to the charge against her.
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New York -
"Keith Haring: 1978-1982" runs at the Brooklyn Museum through July 6th. It is the first large-scale exhibition of the artist's early work.
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New York -
Someone is eating spaghetti on the subway, and someone comments "Animal" and the food fight begins. But what is the protocol, or proper etiquette for eating on the transit system?
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Subway Image
Diego Torres
Sao Paulo Subway train at the station.
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A Japanese authority making an announcement in a subway station after the recent earthquake
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An entrance to the 42nd Street - Times Square subway station in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan. The Times Square station is the busiest in the New York City subway system. The station served 60,604,822 persons in 2011.
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YouTube screengrab / EITANNOYZE
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The Q-Train at the 57th Street Station in Midtown Manhattan.
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Simon Shek/Flickr Creative Commons
Subway sandwich
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A violinist on the subway in Rome
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On the platform of Toronto's subway station
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Security cameras and RED anti-bacterial component on hand rails
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A Metro newspaper on a Toronto subway car
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Los Angeles Metro Rail Red Line train at Union Station.
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Cole always makes sure to eat fresh after a long day of fighting conduits.
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Passengers without their pants during the "No Pants Subway Ride" event at a subway station in Paris. The event is an annual flash mob and occurs in different cities around the world in January, according to its organisers
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London Underground train at the Central Line platforms of Oxford Circus tube station. Terrorists of the Real Irish Republican Army seeking to carry out an attack during the Olympics may go after softer targets like those of public transport systems and shopping centers if the Games prove to be too hard of a target.
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With permission by Reuters / Benoit Tessier
Passengers without their pants during the "No Pants Subway Ride" event at a subway station in Paris. The event is an annual flash mob and occurs in different cities around the world in January, according to its organisers
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