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Smurphy
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New York
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Chicago. The trains and buses in DC don't run NEARLY long enough, and the trains don't go far enough. Also, Chicago has a mix of electric and traditional rail systems that goes back over 100 years and reaches nearly all the suburbs. To be a really good transit system, it has to serve people around the clock. Restaurant workers and hotel cooks might need to be at work at 5 a.m. or earlier. People who work in bars or restaurants that don't close until 2 a.m. need an inexpensive way to get home. DC doesn't provide that. And big cities should have trains that run from downtown right to the airport, and DC doesn't provide that to Dulles (although they finally did so for National Airport in the 1990's). And the DC transit police have a HORRIBLE reputation. They arrested a little girl, 12 years old, a couple of years ago because she ate a french fry on the train; handcuffed her and hauled her away. This gives the impression of poor training given to poorly-screened power-drunken morons. With police powers. No, thank you!
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DC has the cleanest mass transit. Most efficient. New York - the subway goes everywhere. no need for a car or taxi Chicago - awesome as a commuter Atlanta - don't ride MARTA after dark
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I'm not well traveled, but in both DC and San Francisco I could get anywhere I wanted to go without needing a car. In Orlando, it's impossible to survive without a car.
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In 1936 Los Angeles was described as having the best public transportation system in the country. Streetcars. Today, LA has probably the worst, or one of the worst transportation problems in the country. Is that progress?
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NYC has the best transit system in the US. It never stops running. I grew up there with my 4 brothers & sisters and a single mom, without a car. We went shopping, to the beach, the park, to work and school all without a car. We never needed it. If an emergency came up we just called car service; of which there was plenty. To this day, my mother still doesn't drive. Everytime I travel to other cities, I'm disappointed. I can't help but compare them to NYC's MTA; sure other's might be cleaner, but they don't run as often, go as far and run as long.
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