Oh my god, is this these even serious? NY transit is bad so all public transit is bad. Holy s*t fellow Americans, LEAVE THE COUNTRY FOR A FEW DAYS.

I just freaking can NOT. Cognitive dissonance, self delusional and denial, what is it? Whatever it takes to avoid realizing how utterly stupid so many day-to-day aspects of American life are due to larger decisions about social welfare, including basic public transit.

I don't know what this guy is talking about. Subway in NYC has some annoyances but works pretty well most of the time.

It is quite slow compared to other cities with metro I visited. I think mainly due to too many stops. On some parts I got impression than metro platforms take more than 30% of the line fragment which is ridiculous.

Yeah it can depend. Especially on weekends. Sometimes it just makes sense to take get a ride.

One city, and it's not even that good.

Shout out, never seen a +13 flagged into oblivion, I'll take that as a compliment.

Uhm, Barcelona has superb public transport. I would take train and metro in Barcelona over driving in...anywhere because driving in cities sucks.

Europe figured this out a generation or two ago. Visit Barcelona or Amsterdam or Copenhagen. Also, I live in NY and public transit here is certainly good enough. Where did you get the idea it is not?

Public transport seems to be top notch in Europe.

Walking is also nice for shorter distances. Or bikes.

NY's public transit is not great. It works, but it's dirty, slow and unreliable.

I use it constantly, never notice the dirtiness (dirty compared to what?), rarely have to deal with late trains and it moves a hell of a lot faster than cars a lot of the time. There's plenty of routes where I don't even bother looking at driving directions/Uber because I know that no car can possibly beat the train.

I'd guess you've lived in NY for a long time and have forgotten (or never had to suffer through) how bad public transit is in most US cities.

NYC subway system is dirty, lol. I love it, but it's old and dirty. (I live part time in Barcelona and the rest of the time here in NYC. The BCN Metro is very clean by comparison.

> Then come up with a better way to get people where they need to go.

It's called walking, biking, transit. These things all work. If you don't wanna walk a couple blocks to your car, sorry but that's not worth killing the planet and your neighbors. Cars have SO many externalities: air pollution that affects climate change, pollution that makes the air less breathable, noise, danger to others, takes up far more space leaving less room for other modes, etc.