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10-05-2007, 11:34 AM
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Cities with poor transit systems
Based on your travels, what areas in particular would you say have absolutely horrible transit systems? Detroit comes to mind, and so do many of the Sunbelt cities. I just laugh at people who say that Chicago has a poor system.
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10-05-2007, 11:47 AM
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Its kind of hard to tell. The reason is I visited many cities, but only rode the transit in the ones I lived in. I would expect most of the sprawlbelt cities to be some of the worst.
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10-05-2007, 12:41 PM
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Houston's pretty notorious for excessively catering to cars and repeatedly shooting down initiatives to connect the suburbs and downtown with commuter rail.
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10-05-2007, 01:24 PM
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Chicago's system is great, as is DC's. Still too many cars on the road in both those places, though. I don't know. Denver's system is reasonably good, still a lot of cars on the road here, too. Minneapolis' system doesn't extend as far into the burbs as Denver's, and traffic there can be a horrendous mess at times.
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10-05-2007, 02:08 PM
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Pretty much all of the Sunbelt has atrocious public transit, with Phoenix probably topping the list. It is making steps with the building of a light rail system though. Detroit to my knowledge is the largest metro area in the U.S. without any heavy or light rail system in place and no plans to build one. I'd say that Las Vegas, Charlotte, Tampa, Nashville, Miami and Kansas City get pretty poor marks as well.
Really, most cities in the U.S. have poor public transit. It's the exception to have GOOD transit it seems, with only a handful of older cities, chiefly in the Northeast, whose layout is more conducive to public transit, where it seems to be somewhat decent.
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10-05-2007, 02:11 PM
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St. Louis has a pretty decent transit system, but I think it could be made larger because right now it only covers St. Louis City...Chicago's trains extend throughout the whole metro area to my knowledge. But then again, Chicago needs mass transit more than St. Louis does due to its size and the number of interstates passing through it.
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10-05-2007, 02:43 PM
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From what I've heard LA's is ****... But what can you expect for a suburb?
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10-05-2007, 03:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Colts
Based on your travels, what areas in particular would you say have absolutely horrible transit systems? Detroit comes to mind, and so do many of the Sunbelt cities. I just laugh at people who say that Chicago has a poor system.
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10-05-2007, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by pittnurse70
Chicago's system is great, as is DC's. Still too many cars on the road in both those places, though. I don't know. Denver's system is reasonably good, still a lot of cars on the road here, too. Minneapolis' system doesn't extend as far into the burbs as Denver's, and traffic there can be a horrendous mess at times.
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As people and companies set up shop in the suburbs its only getting worse. Not saying that people shouldn't live in the suburbs its just that subway systems like D.C.'s aren't designed for suburb to suburb communiting. When I worked in dt D.C. my subway commute was fine. Then my job moved to the Tyson's Corner Va area and I had to drive in the mess. It was awful. |
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10-05-2007, 04:49 PM
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Quote:
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From what I've heard LA's is ****... But what can you expect for a suburb?
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