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Public transportation in the US absolutely SUCKS.
The problem is that most places don't want trains or subways going through their towns, so they halt the work with city ordinances. So you end up taking a train through a few towns, hopping on a bus to go through another town, and then back on a train again (or a cab). Its really putrid.
There was a story that I read about how a town allowed a train station to be built in their town, and everyone started using public transportation... which is good. The town the realized that they were losing money because people weren't paying for city parking fees (parking meters) and a lot less cars were being towed, so they shut the train station down.
Excuse me, but WHAT THE HELL?! You build a train station to solve a transportation problem, and realize that you're not making enough anymore by towing cars, so you shut the station down? Sounds like a budgeting problem, not a transportation problem.
Sometimes I really want to shake the stupid right out of people.
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