[lbo-talk] America today

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 06:16:01 PDT 2008


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:


> >From my visit in Chicago a couple of years ago, I found the
> CTA to be more comfortable and at least as reliable than
> the MBTA is in Boston. The MBTA, in my experience,
> seems to be one of the worst mass transit systems in
> any major US cities, and is a complete joke compare
> to mass transit systems in cities like Paris, London,
> or Toronto.

I've depended on both and much prefer the T. Rickety though it often is, the coverage is considerably denser:

<http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/> (Ignore that silver line)

<http://www.transitchicago.com/maps/systemmaps.html>

That with Chicago having 3x the area.

-- Andy



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list