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Traveling by train
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 Waiting for the subway. The platform edge has raised dots to warn the unsighted. The pink shows where a door will be. This is door 1 in car 2. There will be handicap seating on the left. Triangles tell debarkees to use the middle, while embarkees wait to the sides. Markings in the subway are clear and bilingual. The left sign is a neighborhood map, with numbered exits clearly marked. The right sign is a 3-D rendering of the station. In case of emergency: gas masks and other equipment. Probably will age out before needed.
 Loose flashlights for emergencies. In the States, they'd vanish before a week was over. A train arrives. Subway cars are clean and modern. A rare few even have TV. Unattended bonsai for sale in a subway station. Less convenient to steal than flashlights, but more valuable. On july 21 we went to Gyeongju starting out on "KTX", the Korean Express Train. Here is the waiting area upstairs.
 The ticket area is downstairs for KTX and local train alike. Seoul tower is just to the right of the top of the mountain. First class on KTX is posh. Farming on the "plains" of Korea. Mountains are never far away. Like the mountains, the all-alike apartment buildings are everywhere. Some manufacturing is also done in rural areas.
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Mar 22, 2016 16:34 GMT
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