City with Best Mass transit? (closing, live, buses)

[Needaplace]

I know Portland OR is up there, also NYC, any others?

[CTownNative]

Cleveland and Chicago are good from what I've seen.

[Drover]

Chicago's would be great if it weren't rotting into the ground and in need of 5 billion dollars' worth of capital improvements.

I also wish Chicago would consider implementing some bus-only lanes. When buses are stuck in the same gridlock as all the rest of the traffic, it sure takes a lot of the convenience out of using mass transit. If it's gonna take me forever to get somewhere, I might as well spend that forever in the comfort of my own car instead of stuffed into a rolling can with 93 other schlubs like we're in a cattle-car to Auschwitz.

[Jake1256]

NYC's subway is nice, but every so often they have technical problems with them, if it's a bomb, or something else. Chicago has a nice transit.

[j33]

I know it is only temporary, but I would like Chicago's much better if they weren't closing my subway stop on the weekends to fix the rotting tracks (at least they are fixing them now). Nor am I a fan of trying to squeeze onto a bus that is so crowded that I don't even need to hold onto anything to be forced to stand upright because all the other people are holding me in place.

That being said, it is pretty good for a US city. By world standards it is a joke.

[Jake1256]

chicago's transits nice, but now that I remember one of their trains slammed into something, it was pretty crazy. I wasn't on it, but I read it in the newspaper.

[Spade]

I think Metro for Washington DC is pretty good.

[chitown68]

Except for going downtown, I rarely use public transportation in Chicago. Most of the major cities in the East Coast such NYC, Boston, Philly, DC have decent transportation options.On the West Coast, I would have to say that Portland,SF and Seattle have good transportation options as well.

[j33]

chitown68m - I've used public transportation in Chicago for most everything for over 11 years (even when I had a car). Depending on where you live, it is really pretty good (I live just south of wicker park so I've got plenty of options on how to get around).

[dullnboring]

New York is hands down the best in terms of mass transit. I would say the other larger Eastern cities rank somewhere behind it, places like Boston, Philadelphia, DC and Chicago all of which have large subway, commuter train and bus networks.