The word "metro" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to an underground or elevated railway system, as in "I took the metro to work this morning," or as an adjective to refer to anything related to an underground or elevated railway system, as in "I have to buy a metro ticket."
Gatiss was, he says, keen to have an "art nouveau" spaceship: "I wanted it to look like the entrance to a Paris metro station".
"The work Galaxy Research will undertake for the Australian under the Newspoll banner will be separate to the research it does for News Corp Australia's metro mastheads.
Fifteen minutes away from the spruced-up centre of Lille, around the Gambetta metro station, you could be in any deprived town in the north of England.
Around 7.5 million commuters cram themselves into local trains every day and the fledgling metro and monorail are unlikely to make a perceptible difference in the near future.
But it was exhilarating to watch kids hopping over metro barriers, smoking weed and shouting, walking wherever they wanted, disobeying every single one of the tight rules that normally control access to the station.
Later, in the Bar Celestina, a smoke-filled drinking den near the metro station, I spoke to a group of them.
The capital's air conditioned metro and shopping malls have become much-sought-after havens from the heat, while power cuts in residential areas were frequent as the grid struggled to cope with the demand from millions of air conditioners.
"El Fosterito", the glass-tube metro entrances designed by Foster, are slick and futuristic.
The demands of the Don't Shoot Coalition, which was formed in the aftermath of Brown's death, are local and threefold: end racial profiling in the St Louis metro area, bring in better tools to hold law enforcement officers accountable, and build police departments that reflect the communities they serve.
