[PascLeRasc]

I'm in Pittsburgh as well, but I don't think I'd agree on our public transit and airport being decent or having a big city feel. Our downtown is pretty much an industrial park, it's nearly a ghost town most evenings. Other areas like Lawrenceville, the Strip district, and the Mexican War Streets are nice, but they feel a bit inauthentic. The bus system is really lacking, it's something that should be light rail instead.

[deg4uss3r]

I take the bus every day to/from work (live and work inside the city) and am able to get pretty much anywhere with the bus, I don't really see a problem with it.

Pittsburgh would not work with a lightrail the city is a triangle with crazy ass intersections and "tiny" streets, not a grid. A lightrail would be very ineffective (see Baltimore's that just runs pretty much one line in the city to the airport), or would require the city to pretty much destroy all existing streets and try again.