10 Cities With The Best Public Transportation Systems

gadling.com:

These ten public transportation systems, in random rather than top-to-bottom order, are among the world's best. The transit systems profiled here include some of the most impressively massive as well as some of the best-scaled urban transportation systems. Today's focus is on international public transit systems; as such, the better US public transit systems (New York, Chicago, and Portland, among others) are not included.

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Comments

[O K Ali]

02:30 PM on 11/05/2010

I was a military brat in Munich and around the age that American kids were pestering their parents to get drivers licenses, we were glad to take the s-bahn. They were always on time and got us to al parts of the city. I even remember one school field trip where over a hundred student took the train downtown.

[KIVPossum]

04:03 PM on 11/04/2010

Glad to see Moscow in 2nd place, it deserves it.

Of course, even the worst city in Europe or Russia has better public transportation than most any place in the U.S.

In rathole Chisinau I can be anywhere in a city of almost a million in 25 minutes for 16 cents or 24 cents depending on mode of transporation

[swift goat pet for truth]

06:19 PM on 11/04/2010

Moscow has beautiful stations.
Paris was convenient.
Japan efficient.

But Hong Kong was FUN!! The trains, the subways, the double decker bus, the tram on HK Island, the ferry, the bus system in the countryside, the light rail, and the Peak Tram. And, the taxis were great, too.

[Ljilja]

03:38 PM on 11/04/2010

Not a single American city - it's a shame!

http://graciouslivingdaybyday.com/

[Marc NL]

03:59 PM on 11/04/2010

"Today's focus is on international public transit systems; as such, the better US public transit systems (New York, Chicago, and Portland, among others) are not included."

[swift goat pet for truth]

06:20 PM on 11/04/2010

They suck next to most. Even Amsterdam's was better than any in the US, and it did not get rated at all.

[Jesse P. Steinberg]

06:39 AM on 11/05/2010

Even if a US city made the list, there would be a problem. Montreal (Canada) did not make the list and it won this years award for Outstanding Public Transportation System in North America by the American Public Transportation Association.

[ontariogirl]

12:48 PM on 11/05/2010

Montreal does have outstanding public transportation. Toronto, for such a big city lacks big time.