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Mass Transit Wars
20sb seems to be primarily American, but probably less anti-mass-transit than most Americans. Many of us live (or have lived) in cities with awesome public transportation systems and judge the cities we visit, in part, by the strength of their systems.
SO, what city (not just in the US...) do you think has the best public transportation system?
I have a vague feeling that I participated in a thread like this a while back, so forgive me if I'm being redundant. I figure that thread is long deceased and new threads are easier to jump into (or maybe that's just me?) and mostly I'm too lazy to search...
Tags: bus, mass, metro, rail, subway, tram, transit, transportation, underground
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Permalink Reply by jaminicole on -
True.
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Permalink Reply by lalalalauren on -
YES
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Permalink Reply by Erin McCarthy on -
Seriously guys? The MAX doesn't even go to 15 places.
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Permalink Reply by Sweeney on -
I am pretty enamored with the DC Metro. It's ridiculously effective and also super clean. The whole no food-or-drinks thing seems like a bit of a burden at first, but after seeing the landfill that other systems become, I totally support it.
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Permalink Reply by Ally Gregory-Moore on
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I love the Metro in DC. It is so easy to navigate.
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Permalink Reply by Melbourne on my mind on -
I loved the DC Metro when I was there in September. Although I was less enamoured with the bus from Baltimore Airport to the Metro!!
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Permalink Reply by Sweeney on
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That's really on you for flying out of BWI. Even getting to IAD is a mild annoyance (until like 2015 when the rail line out there should finally be finished). By the end of freshman year I told my parents that if they wanted me to come home, they had to book my flights in/out of DCA. It sounds ridiculously bratty, given that it's more expensive to fly DCA, but it made such a difference. I flew home for a funeral and I was online booking my flight just under an hour before the flight took off and I was able to get there / through security without taking a cab. (I lived, at the time, a block away from a metro stop on the same line as DCA. Also my roommates were packing my carry-on while I was booking the flight...)
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Permalink Reply by Melbourne on my mind on
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I only flew into BWI because it was the only direct flight from Denver! I had high hopes for flying direct into DC, but that would have required going through O'Hare or Houston (or some really random airports that I would have thought were smaller than Denver), and paying an extra $100. And as I was flying on 9/11, I figured it was best just to get there as soon as possible to reduce the length of time my mum spent having panic attacks!! ;)
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Permalink Reply by TJ on -
London's is the best. I like Boston's better than New York's. Don't remember much of DC's.
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Permalink Reply by Sweeney on
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I remember feeling that way about London's when I was backpacking, but after this weekend I was so glad to get back to the Paris metro. I love the London underground because it is well-lit, comfortable, and - this is key - the station stops are very clearly announced (in the US I would say Chicago is the victor on that front). The system of having a loud/clear/intelligible recorded voice announce the station/line/direction is a great one.
That said, the trains in Paris are wider and taller, which I never really noticed as a vital thing since they only get crowded at rush hours, but the trains were nearly always packed when we were in London, and the shape/spatial arrangement of the train meant that frequently people were not only squeezed in, but hunched over.
I have my Navigo and I could keep from walking more than 2-3 blocks pretty much ever on my card alone, if I took the buses here. I like the buses here a lot more than DC's buses, but as a general rule, I just take the Metro itself and even then, I live about five blocks from my stop and I have yet to go anywhere that required me to walk more than that on the other end. And the system is just ridiculously easy to follow. My French skills are pretty much nonexistent, but I have yet to have any problems with the Metro.
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