> The right comparison is how easy it is to get around the US using private transit like Uber. In my experience (Santa Ana, El Salvador), it's still not even c

> The right comparison is how easy it is to get around the US using private transit like Uber. In my experience (Santa Ana, El Salvador), it's still not even close. The bus routes are smart and frequent, the city is eminently walk-able, and you can always just hop in a Bajaj rickshaw ("tuctuc") if you need to go somewhere far off a route. You'd never pay more than 50 cents for any trip in town. Uber can be extremely slow (I've waited up to an hour and often around half an hour for trips in some big US cities). It's also absurdly expensive, and it seems that the more expensive it is the slower it will probably be (cities with low driver counts).