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I'm always impressed how terrible the subways are in America. In Moscow the metro is running really smoothly since the day of it's creation except for a single

I'm always impressed how terrible the subways are in America. In Moscow the metro is running really smoothly since the day of it's creation except for a single day. But that was because of Hitler.

pcurve 9y ago
just in NYC because of its age. I don't think it's so bad in other big cities. I don't care about the delays or capacity. I just wish NYC subway stations weren't so filthy. Yes, they've gotten better in the past 20 years, but every time I go to oversea, I'm reminded of how disgusting nyc subway is.
- sattoshi 9y ago
  I honestly don't know how Moscow does it. I never saw a garbage can while at the same time never seeing any garbage laying around.
  - pcurve 9y ago
    I think Japan does something similar. http://jpninfo.com/54373 http://jpninfo.com/54373
wutbrodo 9y ago
We're really really REALLY REALLY bad at infrastructure, for reasons that experts don't actually 100% understand yet. There's plenty of possible reasons that contribute, but most of them tend to boil down to some feature of our politics (and the process by which infrastructure construction is purchased). Looking at cost per mile of apples-to-apples transit systems is horribly depressing compared to pretty much any other country.