The Worlds's Ten Worst Public Transit Systems

Did this kat say public transit might pass you due to your race? Not a cab but a public means of transportation?

Damn fellas, yall got it rough out there.
 
ooIRON MANoo said:
Lifelong Los Angeles resident: "Public Transportation...



We love our cars, having a car is a way of life out here. We are a car loving state. Not having one is literally frowned upon. Public transportation is for busters. As laid back as we are, we love our space, we hate the smell. We'd rather sit in traffic, in our own AC filled bubble with our personal music instead of being packed like sardines smelling the unique smells of a public transportation bus/train.
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What a lot of out-of-towners don't understand is that Los Angeles was never meant for public transportation. The auto-motive industry specifically focused on us to build freeways and make the automobile the primary form of transportation.
 
is LAs really that bad? ive only been through LA by car ... it was voted as the third best recently but never used so i wouldnt know. are LA folk saying its bad because you dont like using it or is it legitimately an inconvenient pain in the ***?
[h2]3. Los Angeles, Calif.[/h2]
The City of Angels is known for being among the worst in the nation for traffic, with delays estimated at 63 hours per driver per year. That may be why nearly 1.5 million people ride the L.A. metro bus and rail systems every weekday. To serve the sprawling metro area, the system operates 2,600 buses and a metro rail system that runs over 79.1 miles of track.

http://www.usnews.com/news/slideshows/the-10-best-cities-for-public-transportation/9

...than again, that list left DC mass transit system so they might be on something
 
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Can't believe Philly isn't on that list. 

I have witnessed SEPTA Bus Drivers hit dudes on bicycles and just keep driving....on multiple occassions
 
Certain parts of Los Angeles the bus stops running mad early and it is frowned of you don't have a car in la
 
SoleByThePound said:
ooIRON MANoo said:
Lifelong Los Angeles resident: "Public Transportation...



We love our cars, having a car is a way of life out here. We are a car loving state. Not having one is literally frowned upon. Public transportation is for busters. As laid back as we are, we love our space, we hate the smell. We'd rather sit in traffic, in our own AC filled bubble with our personal music instead of being packed like sardines smelling the unique smells of a public transportation bus/train.
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What a lot of out-of-towners don't understand is that Los Angeles was never meant for public transportation. The auto-motive industry specifically focused on us to build freeways and make the automobile the primary form of transportation.
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There were plans for a massive subway system in Los Angeles in the 1920s but it never came to fruition.

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Nike Jordan said:
There were plans for a massive subway system in Los Angeles in the 1920s but it never came to fruition.
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I am assuming the Auto-motive Industry secretly killed it. Us Los Angelenos were conditioned to rely on our cars. It would be nice to have a world class public transportation system in tact, but that unfortunately will never happen.
 
As an LA resident without a car, I don't find our system nearly as bad as the popular opinion. Contrary to what another poster said (although it actually might be that bad in San Pedro, as I live in the city), any time I take public transit somewhere, it's pretty much a maximum of one transfer, whether bus-to-bus, subway-to-bus, or vice versa. I live right by the Expo line, so I can get to Downtown, Hollywood, Koreatown, Pasadena, and soon Santa Monica all on rail, and then use a bus if necessary to cover the remaining distance. They're building out the line down Wilshire (central LA's main east-west street) within the next 20 years, along with another north-south line that passes by LAX.
 
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That's sad. All cities in America should have some sort of solid public transit system in place based on the number of residents that could benefit from the service, the increase in jobs, increase in tourism and the environmental impact.

I couldn't live in a city without a decent public transit system.

I'm in Ithaca, NY right now and even though it doesn't have a train, the bus system is way better than the one in nyc and chicago and is comparable to the one in S.F.
 
All Tampa has is a crappy bus-only system, which is part of the reason why I'm moving out.
 
TheNoGuy said:
As an LA resident without a car, I don't find our system nearly as bad as the popular opinion. Contrary to what another poster said (although it actually might be that bad in San Pedro, as I live in the city), any time I take public transit somewhere, it's pretty much a maximum of one transfer, whether bus-to-bus, subway-to-bus, or vice versa. I live right by the Expo line, so I can get to Downtown, Hollywood, Koreatown, Pasadena, and soon Santa Monica all on rail, and then use a bus if necessary to cover the remaining distance. They're building out the line down Wilshire (central LA's main east-west street) within the next 20 years, along with another north-south line that passes by LAX.
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this is my main gripe. Los Angeles city/county is so sprawling, yet public transportation really only covers downtown and the westside. the south bay (where I'm from), SGV, 818, etc. everyone else HAS to use a car. dont know how reliable/feasible the park and ride buses are, but the fact that all of the carpool lanes (especially on the 110 into downtown) are being converted to fastrak lanes is a major PITA.

and as someone who now lives in Manila, traffic/streets are just plain nuts in general. absolutely no abidance to traffic laws, lane lines, red lights, etc. whatsoever. ill say that its easier to get around using public trans here than back in LA, just because there are 13984935894019 billion jeepneys/buses/FXs/tricycles clogging the roads. And the LRT/MRT isnt that bad just gets crowded sometimes. Im taller and bigger than 90% of people here so i just know to stay alert and be smart and i wont get got.
 
sneakerp said:
I visited ATL and found Marta was very useful.
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marta is good for visitors ie... it is fairly decent good to get to landmarks and most visited sites. But for anything else marta simply sucks. It isn't a very reliable means of everyday travel unless you work/live in the vicinity of said landmarks/main attractions or in areas where a certain set of ppl live.

Same as the carta.... or w/e Tennessee transit is called now. Detroit isn't really that bad, its just a lot worse then what it once was, couple that with the economic hardship they faced which equates to more crime etc... D-town transit is moreso dangers now then inadequate.
 
enlightenedespot said:
Well damb, I havent seen those photos. Is that only mumbai?

Speaking of good bus systems, my brother went to pitt and buses ran every two minutes.
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I'M pretty sure most of the large cities will be alike. Although serious efforts and funds have been invested to develop a better public transportation. But the sheer mass of people using it makes it impossible, in addition to poor infrastructure and so on. Apparently the buses are the best out of the forms of transportation, although even there you'd have people dangling out of the doors. The government is planning to spend about a quarter of the twelfth 5-year plan on transportation throughout the country, hopefully, that'll decrease the number of deaths.
 
Vegas must be # 11. The buses are never on time and worse the drivers/employees don't even care. Thank God for my car.
 
No comment,
Point well taken, but how can people combat such a poor infrastructure with a large population?

Your from europe right? Hungrary right? What do they do to pacify a situation like this?
 
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sreggie101 said:
The World's Ten Worst Public Transit Systems
If you think your city has a terrible public transport network, visit these places and see what they're dealing with. Here are the ten worst systems out there according to our readers.

9.) Detroit
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Smart, but not finished according to Auto Guy:

Actually, the Detroit People Mover works pretty well. It does exactly what it was intended to do: Transport folks around downtown Detroit destination in a looped configuration. It's been doing so reliably since the 87's, and uses magnetic induction motors and runs under computer control — pretty advanced stuff, especially for the day. It's not the PM's fault that the rest of the system (Detroit Subway) was never built.
Suggested By: Patrick Frawley , Photo Credit: javYliz

5.) Toronto
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Canuk blames Canada:

Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is by far the worst transit system for a large global city. Its appalling the conditions that people have to travel in and the **** they have to take from the people running the system. Over 2.7 million passengers use the system daily and its barely getting any better as the whole system is muddled in unions, bureaucracy and ever increasing ridership.


Suggested By: Canuk, Photo Credit: 松林Ｌ
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i knew Detroit would be on here, it doesnt make any sense tho, its population isnt nearly as large as all of the other cities on this list, and the people mover is perfect so idk what these losers are trying to say, and of course its "unfinished", Detroit is in crazy debt, and i bet the person commenting isnt from the city because if they were then they would realize a subway is unnecessary, the only time it would be used is during the baseball season because all of the white poeple from the burbs come down only for the games, and hockey season, not to mention the city cant just pull funds out of nowhere to tackle such a huge project, no one ever thinks logically when it comes to Detroit

just got back from Toronto, idk, i drove around the city in my car so i cant comment on the public trans, really cool place tho
 
af1 1982 said:
Can't believe Philly isn't on that list. 

I have witnessed SEPTA Bus Drivers hit dudes on bicycles and just keep driving....on multiple occassions
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philly too cheap for it to be on the list :lol: its just really rachet, but otherwise its not complex enough to be unreliable. well having said that, i was never a long distance commuter on the regional rail.
 
DC metro doesn't go a lot of places, they keep jacking up the prices, and there is constant track maintenance.

But it got me to and from work on time, and it is clean, even the ones in the trap. :smokin
 
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I'm a Boston native and I agree that the MBTA sucks... for a public transit system that has so much ridership per day you would think they have better service..
 
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