• Rognaut@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Public transportation in the US is at best, an afterthought. A lot of major cities have buses/trolleys but not many have trains/subways. Only the largest cities have a workable public trans system such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco.

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      1 year ago

      And as someone who lives right outside SF, yes it’s one of the best cities for public transit in the US, but it can still take 2 hours to go somewhere that would take 30mins in a car.

      Not all the time - sometimes it’s just as fast as a car, but often enough that it’s a deterrent.

      And mind you, I live literally across the street from a train stop, so public transit is way more convenient for me than for most in the area.

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      LA used to have one if the best trolley systems, then it got ripped out. It was the sub plot to who framed Roger Rabbit.