How would you describe the public transportation system in your city?

My what?

All we have here is a bus system. But this is a small town, so I guess there’s no need for much more. However the buses are not very frequent, and while they do go to all the important places, it’s pricey. I usually just walk, but with school now I’m forced to take it.

Better than our cabs though. They’re horrible, and provide shit service. A lot more than once had I been stuck waiting for HOURS for one to arrive, forced to phone em over and ov-DIEDIEDIE.

Here in this area is VERY GOOD. You can take a bus anywhere in this county OR even transfer and go anywhere in another TWO counties…. covering the greater of central Florida .

The public transport system where I live is pretty darn good compared to most. With the exception of taxi’s. Catching a taxi or cab, however you say it is nearly impossible sometimes and the drivers here are some of the most rude and generally unlikeable in the country.

The light rail is a joke and the bus schedules are less a fact and more a cross between blind optimism and sheer guesswork.

Non-existent. Well, that’s not entirely accurate, there are a few buses, but they aren’t helpful unless you are going to or from the university. Then again, other than the university, there really isn’t much in this city (if you can call it a city).

Pittsburgh has a far-reaching bus system, but since the actual city is pretty small (with many, many surrounding townships that the buses also serve), the state runs the system, and so there are always strange funding and routing issues, and the city has to pass bond measures every couple of years.

The busses are all very old, none have GPS or any kind of tracking, and they are usually late enough as to make the printed schedule embarrassingly useless.

A combination of the above things and a very strong union that commands 80–90K/year as a salary for bus drivers makes it a pretty tough problem to fix.

Cabs are good, buses are good, and the metro rail is currently shut down in places because Keanu Reeves is in town shooting his new movie.

@aphilotus

What part of Pittsburgh?My wifes family live in the surrounding suburbs.Parents in Washington,brother and aunt and uncle in Irwin.

NYC: the only train system in the world that runs 24/7. What they don’t tell you is that on weekends and late nights, half the lines are out of commission for track repairs and the rest of the trains go from coming every 10 minutes to twice an hour.

And the buses. I understand why they’re needed, but considering the traffic in the city as a whole, they are just. So. Slow. And there’s always the situation where you’ve got all the buses clumped at one stop all at once because traffic gets so backed up, especially on 14th, 34th and 42nd Streets. :/

@TominLasVegas Squirrel Hill, nearly Point Breeze.

Late again.

Pretty silver buses and yellow cabs.

My what? There used to be a railroad, but the tracks were torn up 50 years ago, In this part of the world it’s own your own car or SOL.

“Public transportation?” Here?? Aaahahahahahahahaha!

@A mystery to you too, huh?

Our HRT looks like a good system. I’ve never used it myself.

WAY behind the times. Minneapolis/St. Paul is the 16th largest metropolitan area by population in the US, and encompasses 13 counties, over 6,000 square miles and 4 area codes. We are consistently ranked in the top spots for art, music. literacy, etc., have countless museums, attractions and cultural events, and major league teams for all 4 major sports…this town could be a tourist mecca as it has everything you could want in a vacation. But it’s a car city…everything is so spread out and other than bus lines which can be a less than pleasant experience, mass transit if almost non-existent. Most stuff isn’t clustered so taking cabs everywhere could get really costly really quick. Compared to other cities that have the kind of appeal that this town has from a tourism standpoint, we should have a system where you can get on just about anywhere, get off just about anywhere you want to go, and with a couple transfers see anything you want to see. That’s how it is in Chicago, or Atlanta, or San Francisco, or Boston…not to mention London or most of the rest of Europe….I go to ANY of these cities, I don’t rent a car, it’s more of a hassle than anything. And we have many of the same traffic issues (to a lesser degree of course), but no alternatives.

We have one high speed rail line between downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America, which is less than 10 miles. I believe they also finally opened a high speed line to the farthest northwest suburbs just a couple weeks ago. And it took like 35 years of debate in state legislature to get THIS far. In the busiest freeway routes, it can easily take an hour to drive 20 miles, which is not an uncommon commute in a metro area this spread out, due to a combination of congestion and seemingly never ending road construction. There just seems to be an aversion to anything other than rebuilding existing roads here, hell we even had a bridge collapse in rush hour and kill 13 people a couple years ago…a design flaw from when it was built over 40 years ago was primarily to blame, but one suspects if we had spent money on replacing or fixing the bridge rather than just occasionally inspecting it, one might have discovered this flaw before it killed people. And if it snows, forget it, triple whatever your commute is. And now, just like everywhere else, the state is short on money and light rail costs something like $13,500 an inch to lay track, if they’d started building a robust system 30 years ago, it would have cost probably a tenth as much in today’s dollars, gridlock would be non-existent, tourism would be booming and we wouldn’t have people fighting it to this day.

Over built, over priced, and overly supported by my tax dollars.

Sydney has the worst public transport system in Australia. Our trains are overcrowded and unreliable, and buses are no better. Still, it’s worth getting to your destination though. Best city with worst transport.

There isn’t much. There is a cab company. Its a fleet of old, beater cars the are driven by people that I would not accept a ride from under general circumstances. We also have buses. They look like bigger versions of a mini school bus. They stop running at 6. So don’t go anywhere after about 4pm or chances are you are gonna have to call the taxi. My husband and I talked about taking the kids on a bus ride just to see what its like but we never have.

Very good in Manchester, UK. We have a comprehensive bus network, and some areas served by light rail (although the promised expansions for that haven’t happened). I can’t drive so I rely on public transport and I use it at least 5 days a week.

Almost nonexistent. There is two cab services, both of which have unlisted numbers. You just about have to chase one down, write the # down then call them. the only bus transit is for getting kids to school.

Terrible. Shuts down at 10 on Saturday and 6 on Sunday. No cross towns on the weekends. No service at all on one of the major E-W roads, forcing people to share cabs to get to work. But all of the mass transit execs drive Lexus SUV’s…...

I live in one of the 20 largest american cities, and public transportation here is quite bad. There are too few stops and that come far too often. As someone who can’t drive, it really sucks because I can’t do anything. You will often here my city described to those who are moving here as very car-centric – it’s true. Which is a shame, because I do like this city but I’d like to go out from time to time.

Lawrenceburg Tennessee’s is almost nonexistant. There is one cab ran by a crazy Vietnam vet named Laffy and a Trailways bus runs to Nashville TN or Florence Alabama once or twice a day.

The bus service is quite awesome. I can get pretty much anywhere I actually need AND want to go on the bus inside the city. I don’t have a problem with the taxi service, either. All in all, I’m quite happy/content with the public transportation here.