{"id":192026,"date":"2009-05-21T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/21\/why-mass-transit-sucks-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T10:18:00","slug":"why-mass-transit-sucks-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/21\/why-mass-transit-sucks-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mass Transit Sucks in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/05\/subway-maps-to-scale.php\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a> points to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakeisthenewreal.org\/subway\/\">interesting study on world subway systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a bunch of maps printed out at the<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> same scale<\/span>, and you notice a difference between the US and the rest of the world:<\/p>\n<p>Take a look:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img29.imageshack.us\/img29\/8107\/london42803766.jpg\" \/><br \/>London<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img20.imageshack.us\/img20\/7964\/nyc4bf3037327.gif\" \/><br \/>New York<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/7995\/tokyo4a3157223.gif\" \/><br \/>Tokyo<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/2300\/moscow43216522.gif\" \/><br \/>Moscow<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/1572\/paris4a3221048.gif\" \/><br \/>Paris<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/1381\/chicago4a3279449.gif\" \/><br \/>Chicago<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/6513\/berlin4a3312217.gif\" \/><br \/>Berlin<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img268.imageshack.us\/img268\/8093\/dc4a3316129.gif\" \/><br \/>Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/5645\/osaka43357627.gif\" \/><br \/>Osaka<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/1579\/sanfran43325800.gif\" \/><br \/>San Francisco&#8217;s BART<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/9744\/boston4c3377904.gif\" \/><br \/>Boston<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img200.imageshack.us\/img200\/7277\/phila43343656.jpg\" \/><br \/>Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>There some outliers in the rest of the world, Seoul, for example, but the difference, except in New York, is that America does not really build subways, which serve the city and allow you to get around in the city, it builds some sort of light rail, for commuters to get into the city, in yet another subsidy of the American suburb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias points to an interesting study on world subway systems. It&#8217;s just a bunch of maps printed out at the same scale, and you notice a difference between the US and the rest of the world: Take a look:London New York Tokyo Moscow Paris Chicago Berlin Washington, DC Osaka San Francisco&#8217;s BART Boston Philadelphia &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}