The Moscow Metro is the best metro the Captain has ever ridden! It's impossible to get lost there, and most importantly, it has a Circle Line! The New York City subway map terrifies anyone used to our domestic railbuses, but once inside, if you have even a basic knowledge of the language, you can navigate by the signs. Deductive Captain-level analysis revealed that the local subway was likely used to transport corpses in huge quantities, because if you decide to take the subway on a hot summer day, you'll feel like you're in a morgue due to the ultra-low temperature. New York is the most air-conditioned city; it's freezing in any indoor space, but it's especially noticeable in the subway. You get a draft from every direction, no matter where you sit. That's how the Captain got sick right after arriving. The same applies to buses, like the tourist ones that travel to other states (I don't know about city buses, I haven't ridden them).

Here are a few differences between the local subway system and our capital's domestic one:

1. Here you can get into the subway by going down (or up) the stairs in 10 seconds, whereas back home you have to ride an escalator for 2-3 minutes. If you sit on a bench on Broadway, you can feel the asphalt shaking under your butt. In everyday life, this is convenient as it saves a lot of time, but in the event of a nuclear strike, this whole subway-morgue-transport complex would fold in half, while our metro can easily serve as a bomb shelter. Moreover, in many places (for example, in Brooklyn), the subway is located entirely above ground.

2. Due to the shallow depth, transfers between stations are 30 seconds apart (at large stations, you have to walk for a maximum of 1 minute).

3. The main, but not the last difference, is the organization itself. There are many names for train routes here (1-7, A, B, N, Q, R, V, J, etc.), and each train goes back and forth along its own route, basically like buses. In the Moscow Metro, there is a station from which trains move in both directions. Here, one station can have 2, 4, or 6 lines where different trains run in both of their directions. In short, local stations work on the principle of bus stops.

4. Local trains are terribly slow. Especially the elevated ones. So don't think like, 'I'll stand up, grab a bite, and get from Brooklyn to Manhattan in half an hour.' From Coney Island to Times Square, it takes at least an hour, and to Uptown, 2 hours.

5. There are still fewer people than in Moscow, even in Manhattan, even during rush hour.

6. And finally, the most important thing that distinguishes the Moscow Metro from the American subway. The metro in Moscow is a work of art! It's the spirit of history, the artistry of the artists who decorated it, and in some places, stations with huge areas. The local subway is a rusty reinforced concrete structure with small platforms, leaking ceilings, where rats run along the tracks, built simply so that trains can run.

7. And it's freezing cold there, like, seriously.