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For me cities with great public transportation are key. New York still has a lot of cars, but the subway system is quite extensive. Portland, OR has one of t
by tmaly 10y ago
For me cities with great public transportation are key.
New York still has a lot of cars, but the subway system is quite extensive. Portland, OR has one of the best bus systems I have seen. I wish they had more light rails than they do. When I was last there they were just completing the second one.
Paris has a great subway system that is very clean, and their roads are very walk able.
Montreal and Toronto have great systems.
I think a cities climate is always important to consider. If you want to have bike paths, but you get a ton of snow in the winter, how do you deal with that? At my university up in Rochester NY we had tunnels under ground connecting the buildings. This helped a lot with the brutal winters.
- 8note 10y agobikes in summer, cross country skis in winter
- tmaly 10y agowhat do you do with the young kids in the winter?
- hx87 10y agoTow them on a sled?
- jessaustin 10y agoCatapults and trapeze nets. Actually that would be pretty sweet in the summer too.
- elsurudo 10y agoIMO Toronto's system is not so great, especially for a city its size. A city that size (especially one with as much congestion!) should have a comprehensive subway system (see Barcelona for a great example), not a measly 2.5 lines. Sure, downtown the transit is pretty good, but move outside of that, and things aren't all there.
- G43nm45ji 10y agoI love streetcars, but since there are too many cars on the road, trying to get around downtown is a joke. That said I take the King which is known for being one of the worst I think. It's faster for me to walk a lot of the time.
- meggar 10y agoIf we build our city like a cruise ship, we can choose our climate.
- greggman 10y agoI hope we can do better than NYC and Paris for public transportation. Paris's are smelly. NYC haven't been updated in forever. I'm not trying to be negative, only pointing out there's better. On my short list I'd pick Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Singapore, HK (maybe), even London's is pretty nice compared to Paris. It's clean (at least in my limited experience) and at least for convenience Berlin's is pretty amazing.