Why American public transit is so bad | 2020 Election
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Length: 9min 39sec (579 seconds)
Published: Thu Oct 22 2020
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Just clarifying the title in case anyone was confused like I was.
We have outstanding transit when you compare it to the states, the title is not saying our transit is bad - it's saying the opposite.
Being from England I've found transport here terrible. Then I went to the US and started to kiss the seats on the TTC when I came back
Just to be fair, did the transit map of American cities include both the subway and surface transit? If so, then yeah that is pretty lacking compared to what we have here.
It’s an unpopular opinion, but I always thought that our transit is pretty decent here. It would be nice though if GO trains were more frequent during the weekends.
r/titlegore
I feel like the people complaining about Toronto transit are all from Ontario. I just moved here from Calgary/Edmonton. Toronto has AMAZING transit compared to those cities. Large swathes of both Edmonton and Calgary just have complete transit dead zones. Both cities have large/important landmarks that have no subway/rail access at all (Edmonton has an LRT, but it doesn’t run to West Edmonton Mall, arguably its largest and most visited landmark attraction) Calgary has no LRT in the entire SW quadrant. Toronto doesn’t know how good they have it.
Biggest problem in Toronto is that our rail transit system is still 100% orientated on the Downtown core, and specifically Union Station. If you look at London or NYC the major difference those system have is they have multiple central stations not just in the downtown like in Manhattan, but also in each suburb, which spreads out the traffic volume to reduce cost and overcrowding. In Toronto personally I think it would make sense to have at least one major transit node per suburb and have dedicated rail transit lines linking each of them directly. So for example Islington would be connected to Yorkdale, and the Sheppard line would extend fully east-west, so you could go from Yorkdale to either Islington or Scarborough Center by express rail without having to go though Downtown. The bus system is great for local traffic, but Toronto is seriously lacking in any sort of inter-suburb express transit still.
How embarrassing for the United States that our meagre TTC service is - by comparison - excellent.
It's important to remember that the TTC is charged with the formidable task of operating and expanding a public transit system in the continent's third (or fourth) largest metropolis... on a shoestring budget.
It's been starved of funding for about a generation; shit on by three levels of government... and then subjected to demands and complaints it couldn't possibly satisfy.
Title is misleading