If it makes you feel any better: I got to experience number 1, 2 and 3 of the “best” passenger train systems in this country and it’s crystal clear that each city’s elected officials would gleefully destroy the trains like Los Angeles did, if weren’t so politically toxic to suggest it now:
NYC’s is BEARLY passable as a primary means of transportation (unless you’re in Manhattan) and it gets exponentially worse the further from the city center you are located. Chicago is number two on that list and is so unreliable past 9pm that you either have depend on uber or a bus (buses are just as bad after 9pm) and number 3 is so disappointing that I won’t acknowledge it by name because it literally shutsdown a majority of its tracks after 8pm forcing everything through such a circuitous paths that it turned my 12 minute drive into a 2.5 hour long exercise in patience and it completely stops before 10pm; before 7pm on the weekends.
If it makes you feel any better: I got to experience number 1, 2 and 3 of the “best” passenger train systems in this country and it’s crystal clear that each city’s elected officials would gleefully destroy the trains like Los Angeles did, if weren’t so politically toxic to suggest it now:
NYC’s is BEARLY passable as a primary means of transportation (unless you’re in Manhattan) and it gets exponentially worse the further from the city center you are located. Chicago is number two on that list and is so unreliable past 9pm that you either have depend on uber or a bus (buses are just as bad after 9pm) and number 3 is so disappointing that I won’t acknowledge it by name because it literally shutsdown a majority of its tracks after 8pm forcing everything through such a circuitous paths that it turned my 12 minute drive into a 2.5 hour long exercise in patience and it completely stops before 10pm; before 7pm on the weekends.