ksun
Senior Member
TTC faring third best? I find that very, very hard to believe.
AoD
I guess it is only about North America, where the bar for public transit is very very low.
I just took a trip to Barcelona, a city slightly smaller than Toronto. Their transit is so convenient (11 subway lines, many express bus lines), most buses have dedicated lanes, wide side walk with bike lanes. Traffic seems to flow very smoothly. Most big streets are one way (the myth about one ways street killing street life?). Plenty of pedestrian only streets and alleys. Las Rambles is like our entire University dedicated to pedestrians, with all sorts of shops and restaurants on both sides as well as center island. Imagine making University Ave car-less in Toronto? LOL.
Hugely impressed. That's a well designed city.
When I came back and boarded the TTC trains, which randomly slowed down or even stopped several times, I knew I was back to Toronto. To be the 3 best transit in NA is like being the third richest country in sub-Sahara Africa. Not something worth celebrating.