[lbo-talk] America today

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 22 17:22:01 PDT 2008


Yeah, I forgot to mention Chicago public transit coverage sucks, even if you count in the Metra communter trains.

--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:


> From: Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] America today
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 8:16 AM
> 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
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