Those who bemoan public transportation in the US tend to point to Europe, drooling slightly, and state, "But, but, it's soooo awesome over there! Why can't we have that?" Obviously the simple answer is that NYC does have that and the rest of the US used to have it that good before everyone got auto-erotic-fixation in the 1950's and we ripped out all the old train rails so they wouldn't be coming back any time soon.
Of course, even though Europe has great public transportation, it...
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