[skinnymuch]

I am glad you picked things that affect all of the US and not things that only work in dense areas. Since at least some of those dense area issues are [half] solved in the east coast and SF/the valley get so many things first.

Public transport isn’t amazing between Boston/Montreal to Philadelphia/NYC to DC. However i still get a bit shocked when I go to places outside cities in parts of America where even buses are scant. Forget any other type of public transportation. Even Amtrak barely has any routes.

Nyc is the only city in the world with proper 24/7 subways. I have had the opposite experience of being surprised how bad the times are for subways in major cities across the world. 24/7 isn’t needed, but it’s surprising how cities stop public transport [relatively] early. My experience may be out dated now. East Asia was the worst when it came to this so maybe Europe isn’t so bad in this reheard.

[midasuni]

I think NYCs metro only works 24/7 because there’s enough 4 track to allow two tracks to close for maintenance overnight. If you don’t close a stretch of track how do you maintain it?