Ryan found an interesting article called What Lies Beneath - it compares and contrasts the underground rail transit systems of New York City and Washington DC. The author makes a lot of excellent points, and I agree with several of them. Being a DC-area native, of course I prefer America’s Subway. I’ve spent some time on the NYC subway too, though, and I enjoy that as well. I wish the DC Metro cost less, but the cleanliness alone makes the price a bit more tolerable. It’s unfortunate, though, that Metro doesn’t run later than midnight (2am on Friday and Saturday) - one thing I love about the New York City subway is that you can get pretty much anywhere at any time.

If this kind of thing interests you too (I’m a railfan), you’ve probably already seen NYCsubway.org - but you may not have seen Carguy’s awesome site about DC transit and its history.