Scott Reynolds wrote:
> On 7/7/2003 6:21 PM, Ernest Schaal wrote:
> 
>> in article 3F08C58F.4070306@hotmail.com, Declan Murphy at
>> declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote on 7/7/03 9:57 AM:
> 
>>> Out of curiousity though, how many US cities have mass-transit subway
>>> systems comparable to those in Japan or with London, Paris etc? NYC?
>>> East coast only?
>>
>> I know for sure that Los Angeles and San Francisco have them. I would 
>> not be
>> surprised if most large cities have them now.
> 
> Well, if having a subway on the scale of Los Angeles is enough to 
> qualify, Chicago has a "mass-transit subway system" because part of the 
> el is actually chikatetsu. And Washington DC has a wonderful subway 
> system -- clean, efficient, extensive. But the area where most fall 
> short is the "comparable to those in Japan or with London, Paris etc." 
> To put it in terms an American could understand: Is the mass-transit 
> system good enough that someone who can afford a car would seriously 
> consider doing without one? On this measure, very few American cities 
> would score very high, I wager.

Yeah thats pretty much what I meant by "comparable to those..." NYC? and ?


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