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  • "The ride begins every 10 minutes, “on the ones,�? Lee said, meaning that during daytime hours, a train leaves the first stop, Franklin Avenue while another leaves the last stop, Prospect Park, at one minute past the hour and every 10 minutes thereafter."

    The New York Times, In Brooklyn, It’s the Little Train That Can, by Michael Wilson, July 24, 2008

    July 24, 2008

  • In the Philadelphia area, we have a news radio station that promises "traffic on the twos": reports 2 mins. after the hour, 12 mins., 22 mins., and so on.

    July 29, 2008