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Visiting a city is far different from living and working in a city. To which big US cities are you referring?

• kingosticks 8y ago
  It's pretty limited: Boston, New York, San Francisco, San Jose. Yes. Living somewhere is very different to visiting. But I think it's fair to say that experiences of public transport are usually much worse when you live there. That's because you have to experience it during peak times (i.e. getting to work/school) and throughout all the periods of engineering work. And of course you use it a lot more (and will probably better remember the few terrible times it failed compares to the many more boring times it Just Worked). But maybe I am wrong and there are some bug US cities with great public transport. I'd be genuinely interested to know since the article gave no clues.
  • moorhosj 8y ago
    Chicago has pretty good public transit. Not Europe/Asia good, but solid. It is different for living and visiting because it is entirely built around getting people into the downtown area (hub and spoke). This makes it harder to go from neighborhood to neighborhood, but easy to go from home to work and back home.
    • kingosticks 8y ago
      I do see what you are saying, but that neighbourhood to neighbourhood travel pattern is well handled in some places. I guess the geography of somewhere like SF might explain the mess they have going on.