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.

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