Which city that you visited had the best public transit? Think reliability, affordability, aesthetics, number of different types (buses, trams/streetcars, subways), etc.
Seoul and Tokyo I think are extremely convenient and easy to use. I see some people sometimes say that they are confusing to use because those systems are so big, but honestly I think those people are retarded. Its literally just straight lines
As somebody from the UK, I thought Paris had surprisingly cheap public transport. However the metro is scary as shit sometimes
>>1109978
Tokyo can be confusing if you're trying to get there the fastest or for the least amount of money. LIterally everyone uses an app to determine that. But if you're a tourist and not concerned whether you get there 10 minutes earlier or if you spend an extra 150 yen its dumb easy. With very rare exceptions every single subway stop is reachable by at most 2 transfers. Its just find where you are, find where you're going and find the matching colors that come out of both.
>>1109968
Berlin desu
NYC
I live in Vienna so it's that for me. Other than that, probably Tokyo
>>1109968
Geneva
>>1109978
Definitely NOT Paris. The metro goes everywhere within city limits, and to some suburbs, but not necessarily by direct routes, and is not overly user-friendly. The RER is not a pleasure to use, and the bus network, while better than it used to be, is patchy and particularly useless (and in some places lawless) in the evening. The trams, where they run, are a step up, so things are a bit better than previously.
Elsewhere, where is good? London, actually, but very much less so south of the Thames. Prague, maybe? Decent network of trams and buses, and the metro is more than adequate for a city of its size. Kind of agree Berlin is more than pretty good.
>>1109987
for a European capital city, I thought Berlin's subway was sub par. It's quite confusing, and you always seem to need to change trains a few times to get anywhere.
Only travelled through South America so all transport I've seen COULD be good but always has at least a small issue that fucks up everything
>>1109968
Singapore or Barcelona.
Plenty of clearly mapped subways and more, which will never have you waiting for long
Whats the situation in Madrid? Metro easy to use?
On a scale of Paris to Asian metro, how does it rate?
>>1110029
prague is literally 2 intersecting lines from what i remember.
Im from nyc and when i visited paris, i was amazed at how cheap, clean and convenient the metro there was. I dont know what that british dude meant by "scary as shit"
I went to some of the roughest areas of paris and never felt threatened at all.
>>1110044
>Paris metro
>Clean
Is the New York subway really that bad?
>>1110044
Prague has three lines, you don't remember.
>>1110046
yes, it really is.
a lot of the trains are still from the 1980s.
it's really just insanely bad.
Shanghai is breddy good. Not that clean, but the reach of their metro is god-tier, and pretty cheap.
Singapore has great transport too
>>1110053
>a lot of the trains are still from the 1980s.
The age doesn't necesarily mean being shit, there are older units running in London or Berlin or whatever, but still well maintained
I love the Seoul subway jingles.
I liked Zurich. Not huge or extensive, but for a large (by Swiss standards) city, it is surprisingly affordable. It can be slightly confusing, but the system is set up such that you can custom-choose your start and end and only pay accordingly.
Moscow's is also an attraction in itself, and quite amazing at times (fancy styling, level after level of deep nuke-resistant escalator shafts), but it's full of all Moscow's plebs, and somewhat sketchy, so I can't call it 'best'.
dishonourable mentions: Rome (dirty, hot, crowded), LA (what a fucking joke)
>>1109987
Meh, no. Because of the Cold War and being a divided city, the lines and interchanges are really not as convenient as they could be. It's also quite dirty and filled with bums and hipsters (sometimes hard to tell the difference). For a capital city and major European city, it's operating hours are also rather shit.
Sheffield
>>1110078
yay! engurland mentioned
>>1110057
well, they are shit. they are extremely loud and bumpy. so loud that sometimes you cant speak to the person you might be riding with. Most of the stations are remarkably filthy compared to european train stations, the trains themselves often get cancelled at the last minute without explanation, during busy times a lot of the trains just get fill-packed like sardine cans to the point where you cant get on, and the MTA in general is just very reluctant to modernize. I dont understand why you're trying to convince me that the trains are not shitty. Ive been to a lotta different cities and new york as a whole just never ceases to piss me and basically everyone else off regularly.
>>1109968
Washington, D.C.
Lisbon
>metro stations are nice and new, cool during warm days
>pretty cheap
>covers the city quite well
>metro at airport, connection is great
Also the city lifts are cool as fuck
>>1109968
Best would be entire Switzerland as the whole country is just one large trimmed public transport network where even the most out of reach village has at least 4-8 daily buses.
Munich has a nice network, London was pretty good, BsAs was ok but very complicated to get used to, STGO good metro chaotic buses, Habana was a clusterfuck but still better than LA, most of the asian destination I experienced where top tier if you don't care about fastest or cheapest way to get around...
I made an exact copy of this thread at about the same time on /n/. Check out the other thread to see their answers: >>/n/951069
I made an exact copy of this thread at about the same time on /n/. Check out the other thread to see their answers: >>>/n/951251
Tokyo & Osaka - Multicoin slots on ticket machines are amazing, and I wish every ticket machine had them.
Kaohsiung MRT - Gets you anywhere in the city easily. Formosa Boulevard has some amazing art.
Taipei MRT - Only thing its missing is a connection to Taoyuan Airport.
>>1110090
I second this. DC has the best subway system in the US.
Stockholm has really good network of metro, buses, trains, light rail, all work with the same card, relatively cheap, clean, no confusion at least if you understand a bit of swedish.
I don't know if it's the best but Stockholm is the only big city where I've visited numerous times to create a solid opinion.
I lived in Melbourne for a year, and it's like twice the size of Stockholm but their transit system is fucking ridicoulus for a city that big. Within Australia it's surely the best, and I got used to it but it's so behind. But that's what you get when you follow "american dream" and build cities that only support automobile.
>>1110201
Melburnian here, can confirm. If you don't have a car and you don't live close to the city, it can take hours to get anywhere.
Sydney is better, in that it has a decent train network which is fairly well connected to neighbouring towns, but it's still not up to European standards. I couldn't tell you about other cities, but Australian public transport is generally a joke.
I found Oslo and Bergen great. Bergen only has one tram line through the city, but it ran every 5-10 minutes and it was quick, and buses were fairly regular as well.
Oslo almost has too many options: at the hostel I stayed at there was a train station, a tram station and numerous bus lines to different points of the city within two minutes walk. Nothing was particularly new, but everything ran on time and was clean. Also, you could catch ferries using regular tickets, which was cool.
Actually, pretty much every Scandi city I've visited had great public transport. 10/10, would socialism again.
I've been to Tel Aviv a bunch, and while it doesn't have a metro yet, the bus system is pretty nice. It's dirt cheap for inner and inter city travel (around $5-7 between cities), most buses have personal USB ports for charging. Most stops have an electronic board telling which bus is coming and in how long it'll be at the station and inside the buses are also loud pre-recorded announcements and electric boards for every stop.
On shabbat the buses and train don't work but there are "public taxis" which are basically large vans outfitted as minibusses that are the same fare aa regular buses, so you don't miss out on anything.
How comes nobody mentioned Karlsruhe?
Public transit in Portland is pretty nice.
Tokyo is awesome because you can just smash through the turnstiles and a little rinky dink alarm goes off and the guy in the booth is too scared of white people to do anything. Fucking hilarious.
>>1110279
>Buying tickets
>Something people do
Pick one, everyone has a Pasmo,Suica,etc and for year now those cards were interoperable within cities, but now the cards work in the entire country.
>>1110311
>White people actually think this
Its not worth their time to even bother for the few asshole tourists that do it at any random station. At stations like Roppongi where theres a lot of asshole tourists in one place they have security at every exit
>>1110311
Wtf is wrong with you?
Fucking white people can't even bother paying the fee.
>>1110321
White people do not think this. Are you actually retarded? He's just trolling
Nobody who can afford to travel to Japan is that much of a dick to think "i'll just walk through this subway barrier". Maybe they are so stupid they don't realise how to pay but actually I don't think they exist either.
I don't what it is about Japan that makes some people think they are so much smarter than other tourists. We all know how to use a fucking subway.
You got more of a reaction from me than the actual troll
Dresden is excellent.
>>1110327
>implying I'm not the Japan shoplifting guy
>implying I didn't steal everything from shoes from don quixote to 4L whisky bottles from seiyu on a daily basis
>implying I feel any way guilty about this
I steal and so should you.
>>1110005
Vienna's public transport was so goddamn clean, I felt like I could've eaten off the seats. The trains and stations were spotless, it was amazing coming from Chicago
The metro isn't a 24 service, which is a bummer, but at least you don't feel disgusting after ruding riding
>>1110329
>I teach English
kek
>Hong Kong
MTR gets you to most places you want to go to, it's fast and efficient, and super simple ticket system.
>Singapore
Like HK. Clean, efficient.
>Zurich
Extensive, reliable. A bit expensive though, and confusing ticket system.
>Barcelona
If you're just using the metro, it's super easy.
I found cities like Osaka easier than Tokyo. Sure, Tokyo has great public transport. But the problem is the competition between all the different private companies. Countless times I've ended up taking a route with one company (JR or whatever), only to find out later that there would have been a much faster and more direct route with another company. It's getting better these days at least, but it used to be that all the different transport companies in Tokyo don't as much as acknowledge each other's existence.
you can travel from one side to the other and back for an Euro desu
>>1110311
Are you that lowlife who steals groceries?
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Most of the bus/tram drivers in Belgrade literally refused our money.
I didn't see a singe person pay for public transport in the week I spent there.
Gothenburg has the cutest trams.
Lyon's public transport was really good as well, much better than Paris's.
>>1110521
You know it brother! Where else can you grab a $200 bottle of bourbon, pocket it, and casually walk out?
>>1110330
>Dresden is excellent.
Would you say it's...the bomb?!
>>1110332
>I steal and so should you.
Whatever you say, Satan-in-Training.
>>1109980
Dude just use google maps. It's easy as shit and not confusing.
I was maybe confused for the first 5 minutes of my first trip in Tokyo, after that it was so easy I barely had to think about it, especially if you live there and have a Suica or Passmo card.
>>1110329
I sincerely hope you eat Fukushima fish and get as much cancer as a human can possibly get, but by a miracle of science you stay alive longer than anyone thought possible as the cancer eats away every part of your body and you spend every day begging for death, but the cancer has taken your tongue and ability to speak so you can't even scream.
This is my wish for you.
Hong kong is pretty easier to navigate and relatively affodable. Shenzhen is even cheaper. Both are clean but somewhat crowded.
They both have full glass doors that separate you from the track. I HATE when the track is open, paranoid some fat fuck will bump me over.
>>1110559
anybody who believes this guy is retarded
>>1110171
Dark stations,finicky at times of cold winter weather and expensive. Do better WMATA.
Berlin desu
It has everything and goes everywhere.
>>1110332
Am I weird to think this is some Asian American troll trying to make white people look bad?
>>1110005
vienna was really expensive though and little to no service at night. but vienna is dead at night anyway
>>1110859
>really expensive
it has a standard price in the German cities of similar size, I think very convenient compared with purchasing power and average income in those countries
Shanghai. The metro reaches the entire city, and is extremely cheap per ride. It's relatively clean with marble floors in most stops, but it's still dirty because it's China.
>>1110284
Because it's a fucking backwater that no one cares about.
>>1110326
>Weeaboo with no perspective detected
In my mid-size German city, the only people who don't pay their fares are nigs and arabs, and turks. Registered refugees should usually have a pass that lets them travel in the local area, but not always. I have seen many trying to sneak on and feign ignorance to the driver when challenged. As soon as they sit down they giggle with their mates about their little trick.
Wow, Weebs are so easy to troll... besmirch Grorious Nippon's virtue in any way and they come out with shit like: >>1110521 >>1110574
>>1110624
Really? The anon is a troll, but even if it were true... he's just a garden variety dirtbag. Get yourself together. There are people joining ISIS, Chinks knowingly selling poisoned food, child kidnappers and child sex-rings, hedge fund managers and people still willingly living in Cleveland. They all deserve cancer before some big mouth troll.
>>1110573
more like, it's on fire.
>>1110035
>not using S-Bahn system
>>1110929
Oh look, another retard who uses weeaboo without knowing what it means.
You don't need to be a weeb to consider what he's doing as being silly.
>>1110875
I'll second this. The bus system is also really great (fast and efficient in my experience).
>>1110329
it's people like you that cause nationalism wars
https://youtu.be/7FYuYkPgDkk
The state department should revocat your passport.
>>1110042
>>1110055
>>1110484
>Singapore
Ha, yeah. Maybe it still stacks up well to some places, but Singapore's MRT has spent the past ten years in a state of precipitous decline, and in my view it's just coasting on its original, well-deserved reputation at this point.
Why? Ten years of a CEO who previously ran duty free shops, and who decided that the best thing for a metro company to do was to cut spending on maintenance and capacity, and start converting empty floorspace in the stations into retail/F&B shit.
>>1109968
That place is Tenerife. It doesn't have good public transport but it has improved last year and it still improving. Saying that, it's the fucking place in the world.
Everytime i travel i miss my sun and sea :(
>>1111082
I haven't been to Singapore but are you saying its declined because it has stores at the station? Can you give some ways its in decline?
>>1109980
I live there and don't use an app...
I know some people use hyperdia (which doesn't have an app I don't think) though
>>1110484
As a guy who just got back from Hong Kong this morning I can say that, while the MTR is nice, it has absolutely nothing on Tokyo's rail network. Literally anywhere in the wards and nearby areas is 20 minutes or less on foot from a train station.
>>1111601
True, when you ask where people live in Tokyo they will almost always tell you in relation to the closest station since it's all so interconnected and you're rarely ever farther than a short walking distance to the next station. It's also amazing to me that some of the main train lines arrive every 2 minutes on the dot and you never have to wait long at the platform wondering what's up with the train like I have to do in fucking San Francisco with our stupid shit hole BART system, god dammit.
>>1110929
I'd rather hang out with ISIS members than that bag of herpes dicks who is actively ruining a great thing because he's under the delusion that he's some alpha master race for inventing the idea of stealing.
>>1110332
but I have so much money
>>1111601
Agree on HK, felt like I had to use other means of transport much more to get some of the places I wanted to. But then again considering the size and geography its still impressive
>>1111008
sort I hurt your feefees, weeb. Why don't you come on a little plastic figurine for children, that will make you feel better. Mom will bring you some hotpockets, later. Nippon Daisuki!
>>1109968
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>>1109989
lol this is a joke right
>>1110086
You are trying to blow it up. All the complaints you've come up with are very common in public transport all around the world, you could be describing the London underground right now.
Grow up mate.
