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compared to the big the cities in the US cities ==> city The only big city in the USA with decent transit is NYC. San Francisco is comparable to Boston, DC, a

compared to the big the cities in the US cities ==> city The only big city in the USA with decent transit is NYC. San Francisco is comparable to Boston, DC, and Chicago and far ahead of LA, Dallas, and Miami. By world standards, NYC is barely average and the rest of the country has no transit system at all to speak of.

tks2103 14y ago
by which metric is nyc barely average?
bradleyjg 14y ago
London, Paris, Seoul, and Tokyo all shut down most of their mass transit system overnight. NYC runs it all night long (albeit with fewer trains and some diversions). By the important metric of availability that puts it among the top.
- WildUtah 14y ago
  Indeed, 24-hour rail service, even though it runs at infrequent and irregular intervals, is a big point bringing NYC up to barely average in its peer group. Other measures like coverage (suburbs count), travel times, intermodal operations (awful airport connections), connectivity (think Jersey), and jitney service and taxi availability drag NYC's score down. I can count NYC as barely average only because the peer group includes not only London, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, and Osaka but also Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Istanbul, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. If I'd just used your list, NYC would be dead last in almost every category.
  - drstewart 14y ago
    If you're going to use taxi service to judge how good public transit in, your methodology is probably flawed.
ruswick 14y ago
Chicago ought not to be lumped in with Boston and DC. DC and Boston are both quite nice (comparatively). The CTA is not. It's barely tolerable (and by tolerable, I mean that people are even capable of using it to get around and/or commute at all. So, the system might technically be a functioning transit apparatus, but barely.) I've used it daily for a sizable portion of my life, and it fails with remarkable consistency.

tks2103 14y ago

by which metric is nyc barely average?

bradleyjg 14y ago

London, Paris, Seoul, and Tokyo all shut down most of their mass transit system overnight. NYC runs it all night long (albeit with fewer trains and some diversions). By the important metric of availability that puts it among the top.

WildUtah 14y ago
Indeed, 24-hour rail service, even though it runs at infrequent and irregular intervals, is a big point bringing NYC up to barely average in its peer group. Other measures like coverage (suburbs count), travel times, intermodal operations (awful airport connections), connectivity (think Jersey), and jitney service and taxi availability drag NYC's score down. I can count NYC as barely average only because the peer group includes not only London, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, and Osaka but also Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Istanbul, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. If I'd just used your list, NYC would be dead last in almost every category.
- drstewart 14y ago
  If you're going to use taxi service to judge how good public transit in, your methodology is probably flawed.

ruswick 14y ago

Chicago ought not to be lumped in with Boston and DC. DC and Boston are both quite nice (comparatively). The CTA is not. It's barely tolerable (and by tolerable, I mean that people are even capable of using it to get around and/or commute at all. So, the system might technically be a functioning transit apparatus, but barely.) I've used it daily for a sizable portion of my life, and it fails with remarkable consistency.