23rd April 2004, 2:53 PM
Subways... the one I have the most time on, obviously, is the Boston one. I've been on plenty of others a few times, but I don't remember most that well...
But in Europe those are the same as they are here, just with them in every major city and not just a few (Boston, New York, Washington, etc...). It's railroads and buses that are the big differences. Buses? As OB1 said, Weltall, your experience hasn't exactly been with a great public transportation system...
Trains, though, are the biggest difference. They have them. Going everywhere. And they are very convenient and stop in a lot of towns. All three (funny about that... a year, a month, and a week... :D) times I went to Europe we used them quite a lot... you just can't do anything remotely like that in the US. Oh, size is part of it, but hardly all... they just set up that huge network of rail while we use highways and airplanes...
In the US you only have good rail if you're ... um, in the commuter rail zone in the cities along the Boston-to-Washington cooridor? Though I don't know anything about US commuter rail and have never used it so I can't say much more than that...
But in Europe those are the same as they are here, just with them in every major city and not just a few (Boston, New York, Washington, etc...). It's railroads and buses that are the big differences. Buses? As OB1 said, Weltall, your experience hasn't exactly been with a great public transportation system...
Trains, though, are the biggest difference. They have them. Going everywhere. And they are very convenient and stop in a lot of towns. All three (funny about that... a year, a month, and a week... :D) times I went to Europe we used them quite a lot... you just can't do anything remotely like that in the US. Oh, size is part of it, but hardly all... they just set up that huge network of rail while we use highways and airplanes...
In the US you only have good rail if you're ... um, in the commuter rail zone in the cities along the Boston-to-Washington cooridor? Though I don't know anything about US commuter rail and have never used it so I can't say much more than that...
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