Boulevard and Subway

Boulevard

Boulevard noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.

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Subway and boulevard are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Subway" instead a noun "Boulevard".

Subway noun - An electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city).

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Boulevard and subway are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Boulevard" instead a noun "Subway".

new

new boulevard

new subway

One shot shows water rushing into a subway station, the signs showing that, apparently, the New York Subway has a stop on Wilshire Boulevard.

Source: California Doubling
The Brussels Premetro (tram line which goes part underground like a subway under modern Anspach Boulevard) runs in a former riverbed which had become an open sewer in the 19th century and later got drained, covered and built upon.

Source: Absurdly Spacious Sewer
A similar story applies for the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway, a proposed extension/branch of Philadelphia's Broad Street Line.

Source: Development Hell

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