| I have seen many sides of this dice... I have lived in New Delhi for 20 years, in Singapore for 5 years and in SF/Berkeley for 10 years. Public transit in SF Bay area is horrible. You are right... it smells because of the homeless riding it all day, and service times are bad, and its quite expensive too. Even New Delhi's metro is nicer and cleaner than the BART / Caltrain (because its newer but also because the company keeps it clean). Singapore's public transit system is out of this world. Its absolutely amazing. Clean, efficient, reasonably priced, etc. It was a shock to me when I landed in the "greatest country on earth" to see such a pathetic public transport systems. I brought a motorcycle after my first year in US. We have 2 cars now, not only because we like the cars, but precisely because we would like to avoid the public transport. However, people who have seen good public transport would always vote for that. I would love to see a Singapore like public transport in the US. I loved it and would give up 1 of our cars for that (still need 1 car to head out to Yosemite). But alas, I don't see that happening in the US because US people have not seen good public transport. |