Talk:Smith–Ninth Streets station

Highest in the system or in the world?
The reference says that the station is the highest in the world. The article says that it isn't. Maybe, it's worth to delete the reference (or add a comment). Vcohen (talk) 18:53, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

This edit summary is not right. King Memorial in Atlanta is 51 feet above the ground while this station is 87.5. Vcohen (talk) 08:06, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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Use of "subway"
I have two concerns with the use of "subway" in the "highest subway station in the world" claim:


 * "Subway" is a very American word; a reader outside of North America might not understand this. In the UK, as I'm sure you know, a "subway" is a tunnel underneath a busy street that allows pedestrians to cross without inconveniencing traffic. So the concept of "subway station" is meaningless in that context.
 * "Subway" implies that it's underground, which of course it's not here.

So maybe we could call it the "highest elevated rail mass-transit station in the world" and it would be clearer to everyone?

Also, I put a fact tag on the footnote saying that it is not the highest above sea level. Well, what is? We should explain this here and give sources. Daniel Case (talk) 03:36, 11 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I removed the unsourced claim. I think it would be fine to replace "subway" with "rapid transit", because rapid transit is the same thing and shorter. epicgenius (talk) 18:02, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
 * OK. Daniel Case (talk) 18:23, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Photo of before/after renovation
The photos that are used as an example of the before renovation and after renovation are taken at different parts of the station. They do not accurately represent a before/after of the same location in the station. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:800E:AC00:7DDB:D18C:F8A1:6D5 (talk) 14:19, 5 April 2019 (UTC)