[WS:] Have you been to Baltimore? Its transit system is a joke comparing to that in Boston.
Another point, mass transit system in most US cities does not work well by design rather than by accident. It suffers from the same syndrome as the rest of the transportation infrastructure in this Repug-infested shithole aka US of A - defunding of public services (aka "starving the beast") in the aftermath of the reagan "revolution." The only difference is that mass transit system suffers more than the rest of transportation infrastructure because it serves the subpopulation that has the least power - ethnic minorities and the working poor (I call it "transportation apartheid.") But the road system also sucks comparing to that what Western Europe has - it just sucks relatively less than mass transit system. The only transportation system that does not suck in this shithole is that serving its corporate owners (e.g. limo services, private jet and helicopter services, etc.)
Wojtek
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