Feb. 11, 2022 •. Jake Blumgart. America's massive highway system provides a low-cost foundation for scaling up intercity bus service, which makes this form of transit more green than trains, say New York's subway is one of the largest and oldest transit systems in the world and costs $2.75 per ride. Name: Valley Metro Rail. Fare: $2.00. Source: Valley Metro. Advertisement. Bus ridership, however, outpaced trains in subway cities with 3.7 billion trips and trumped all rail with 5.2 billion trips nationwide. Both of those are sharp declines, however, as big-city bus Synonym for subway They all mean the same thing. A metro is a subway system (paris) A subway and a train are the same thing|I'm pretty sure they all mean the same thing|It depends on the area. The subway and metro are both train system but some places refer to it differently. For example in DC, we say Metro. In New York they call it the subway.|subway and metro mean the same thing, that is a Tokyo has a lot of train and subway lines, run by a lot of different companies and it can get confusing. For the most part, if you have a tap-to-pay card — see below — it’s really cheap (just a few hundred yen to go anywhere in central Tokyo) and it doesn’t matter what which company is running the line or whether it’s a subway or a train. The subway system in Tokyo is divided into two companies: the Tokyo Metro and the Toei Subway. There is no real pattern, nor any rules, as to whether or not you have to take one or the other, or if you can only take the subway and not the JR. You can mix and match to your heart's content, or you can only take JR, or you can only take the subway. Dec 19, 2013. Paris vs. New York: Subway Edition. By Laurent Berstecher. Maybe the York Street F station isn’t so bad after all. (No, it’s still pretty bad.) Parisians are known for their shitty attitude toward everything, and thus if you know some Parisians here in New York, you have probably heard at least one of them rant about the MTA Therefore more subways are the only answer. Subways serve far more people than the commuter rail network. Our rail network is designed to get suburbanites into and out of the city but bad at getting them around the suburbs. The subways are better at getting people around the city even though it's still a pretty Manhattan-centric design. MrCSG.