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you can walk up to a car with your bus pass, scan the card on the windshield and reserve it on an iphone.
i.e. if you come into downtown, do some unexpected shopping, just walkover to a parked igo car and go home in that.
you can also track the buses live on gps as they come down the street, so if it is snowing and u don't want to come out of your house yet, just wait a few more minutes, then walk outside, bus will be there.
or secure indoor bike parking right downtown
or the underground pedway
DC has the nation's only bike sharing system in place, and plans to expand it to 10x its current capacity by the end of the year. washingtonpost.com
dude, look at the maps. portland doesn't even have a subway, is this a joke? have you actually been to and used these other cities systems?
as for international...
nyc/paris/moscow/tokyo/madrid/london
no order, i personally prefer paris, have not used moscow or toyko but i know they are good also.
Those are not the best at all. By your own reasoning the best is solely the place with the most numbers and highest percentages. NYC? Paris? Are you kidding me?
And so what if portland doesn't have a subway? Last I checked Chicago wasn't really a subway either with only a couple of underground stations, hence the name the 'L' (for Elevated)
Okay so the best Public Transportation in the world than you would say is what? There is only one answer by your definition, and I know what it is - somehow I don't think anyone on here would agree its the best though.
I couldn't tell you, but I suspect you are trying to force me to renounce an apples to orange comparison, which I won't do. It's quite possible that the best public transit system is a bunch of rickshaws in a village in India. That said, obviously there are different urban categories, and while we can't really compare London to this theoretical village, we can compare London to L.A., or Chicago to Portland. You are trying to use an expansive definition of public transportation along with relativistic ratings. Not many are buying it.
I couldn't tell you, but I suspect you are trying to force me to renounce an apples to orange comparison, which I won't do. It's quite possible that the best public transit system is a bunch of rickshaws in a village in India. That said, obviously there are different urban categories, and while we can't really compare London to this theoretical village, we can compare London to L.A., or Chicago to Portland. You are trying to use an expansive definition of public transportation along with relativistic ratings. Not many are buying it.
No its not a theoretical village. Its a major world city. But nobody would ever try to say its the best public transportation even though it has more daily riders than anywhere else in the world.
You gave the definition:
"I've told you already that it is best measured by percentage of population that uses it."
So this city would clearly win. It is Mumbai. The subway gets over 6 million riders a day and over 80% of the population uses some form of public transportation. And yet I don't think a single person here would say the filthy overcrowded double decker buses, ferries, and subways of Mumbai are as good as the modern rails of Tokyo or the sleek and clean subways of Moscow.
Those are not the best at all. By your own reasoning the best is solely the place with the most numbers and highest percentages. NYC? Paris? Are you kidding me?
And so what if portland doesn't have a subway? Last I checked Chicago wasn't really a subway either with only a couple of underground stations, hence the name the 'L' (for Elevated)
its heavy rail last time i checked, nyc also had elevated trains
by ANY LOGICAL REASONING portland is out... layoff whatever you are smoking.
and yes those are the best in the world.
paris has a subway stop under 1/3 mile of EVERY address in the entire city!
Whether a system is elevated, underground, or both, it is still a heavy rail/rapid transit system which most people when they seem them either call them "train" or "subway" lol.
It may not beat Tokyo, but Mumbai is clearly ahead of Portland. And just so you understand that you are wrong, I said it was "best measured." That doesn't mean "only measured." Other important measures include safety, cleanliness, comfort. But if it only serves a small minority of the overall population, the rest of those considerations don't matter.
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