Posted September 5, 200915 yr I don't think there is already a similar thread. What systems have you ridden? I've ridden: COTA Cincinnati Metro D.C. Metro (subway & bus) NYC Subway & bus Las Vegas "People Mover" Paris Metro Berlin U-Bahn and S-Bahn Amsterdam Tram Wiesbaden, Germany bus Neroberg-Wiesbaden Incline Frankfurt-Wiesbaden S-Bahn Miller Boat Line ferry (to Put-In-Bay, does that count?)
September 5, 200915 yr As a daily commuter: CTA rapid transit and buses (Chicago) Pace buses (Chicago suburbs) Metra commuter trains (Chicago) MBTA subways and light rail (Boston / Cambridge) SEPTA commuter rail, subways, light rail, and buses (Philadelphia) MTA subways and buses (New York City) As a visitor / occasional rider: Amtrak Washington Metro MARTA rapid transit (Atlanta) MTA Long Island Rail Road MTA Metro North Railroad PATCO rapid transit (Philly / South Jersey) Portland MAX light rail Portland Streetcar Pittsburgh "T" light rail Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (Northern New Jersey) London Underground London buses Docklands Light Rail (London) UK intercity trains Queen City Metro buses (Cincinnati) TANK buses (Northern Kentucky / Cincinnati) Detroit people mover Jacksonville, Florida people mover Jacksonville, Florida buses I've also ridden and/or helped restore and operate vintage Chicago 'L' trains, NYC subway trains, and various streetcars and interurbans at Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine, Shore Line Trolley Museum in Connecticut, and the Illinois Railway Museum outside of Chicago.
September 5, 200915 yr Greyhound (never again) Chicago L, Bus Cleveland NYC Subway Boston T Washington Metro Terre Haute, IN City Bus Bloomington, IN City Bus St. Louis Metrolink Atlanta MARTA Dallas DART New Orleans Streetcar San Francisco MUNI, Bart Salt Lake City TRAX Portland MAX LA Subway, Bus San Diego Trolley Montreal Subway Vancouver BC Bus Barcelona Metro Manchester, UK Metro Tokyo Metro, Bus Japan Commuter Rail: Kintetsu Meitetsu Several in Tokyo JR Tokaido, Hokkaido, Sanyo, Shikoku JR Shinkansen Nagoya Subway Osaka Metro Hiroshima Streetcars Hakodate Streetcars Sapporo Subway Toyama Light Rail Seoul Subway Pusan Subway Korean National Railway (Seoul-Pusan) Shanghai Metro Beijing Metro China National Rail (all over) Alamaty Streetcar, Kazakh National Railway Tashkent Subway (the best IMHO: classical stations just like Moscow) India National Railways (all over northern India) Bangkok Elevated Thai Trains Hong Kong Metro La Paz, Bolivia Bus Overland transport bus in Bolivia, Peru
September 5, 200915 yr RTA Cleveland COTA TARTA SARTA (Canton) LCT (Lorain County) NYC Subway, LIRR Boston T Philadelphia SEPTA Detroit People Mover Chicago L San Fran cablecar, streetcar San Diego Trolley Las Vegas Monorail DC Metro Dallas DART New Orleans streetcar Can I count the Disney Monorail as mass transit? Toronto Transit subway, bus Transit Windsor bus London Underground Manchester Metrolink, GMPTE buses Liverpool Merseyrail Newcastle Tyne and Wear Metro (rail) Blackpool tramway British Railways, Network Northwest National Express (UK intercity bus) Dublin DART rail Paris Metro Metro de Madrid Barcelona Metro Venice vaporetti Budapest Metro Prague Metro Krakow MPK bus Warsaw Tramway Berlin U-Bahn Munich U-Bahn Vienna Metro Frankfurt U-Bahn Amsterdam tram Rotterdam RET tram
September 5, 200915 yr This is all I can think of off the top of my head. [*]Amtrak [*]Athens, Greece; MTSA [*]Atlanta; MARTA [*]Charlotte; CATS [*]Chicago; CTA [*]Cincinnati; SORTA [*]Dayton; GDRTA [*]Indianapolis; IPTC [*]Miami; MDT [*]New Orleans; NORTA [*]New York City; NYCTA [*]Philadelphia; SEPTA [*]Tampa; HART [*]Washington; Metro
September 5, 200915 yr Cincinnati Metro German ICE, S-bahn, streetcar, skytrain French TGV Paris Metro Thai interurban bus and city bus Disney monorail It may not be much but what a variety! The red trucks in this photo are the city buses in Chiang Mai, Thailand. They hold about 12 people. On main roads in the city they come about once a minute.
September 6, 200915 yr I'm still trying to grow my list! But for now..... Cleveland RTA (Buses and Trains) St. Louis Metro (Buses and Trains) Chicago CTA (Trains) Salt Lake City TRAX (Trains) Washington, D.C. Metro (Trains) Atlanta MARTA (Trains) Mayport, Florida Ferry (Near Jacksonville) Rome, Italy Metro (Subway) Glasgow, Scotland Underground (Subway) and Buses Glasgow-Edinburgh, Scotland Train Glasgow, Scotland Ferries Walt Disney World Buses, Boats, and Monorail :-D
September 6, 200915 yr North America Amtrak Chicago CTA L Chicago CTA bus Chicago Metra commuter rail Chicago PACE bus Cincinnati METRO Cleveland RTA bus Cleveland RTA train Cleveland Railbus commuter train (1985 only) Cleveland Holy Moses Water Taxi :-D Columbus COTA Detroit bus Detroit People Mover Greyhound Maryland Rail Commuter MARC New Jersey Transit commuter rail New York City MTA subway New York City Metro North commuter rail Ottawa bus Ottawa O-Train Philadelphia SEPTA subway Philadelphia SEPTA commuter rail Pittsburgh T light rail Pittsburgh PATrain commuter rail San Francisco cable car Toronto streetcar Toronto subway Toronto GO Transit commuter rail VIA Rail Canada Washington DC Metro rail Washington DC Metro bus Overseas Bristol, England airport-city bus Chester, England bus C2C trains (London-Southend on Sea-Rainham-London) DB InterCity Express (Cologne-Frankfurt) Dutch InterCity Express (Brussels-Cologne) Eurostar high-speed train (London-Brussels) First Capital Connect train (London-Hatfield) Frankfurt S-Bahn Great North Eastern Railway high-speed train (York-London) Great Western Railway high-speed train (Bristol-London) London Underground London Overground bus London water taxi Manchester tram Paris RER train Paris Metro subway Paris water taxi Thalys high-speed train (Brussels-Paris) "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 6, 200915 yr I think this is all i have: Cleveland RTA (bus and train) Denver (bus) Pittsburgh (light rail) San Francisco (BART train and streetcar) Glasgow (train and subway) Glasgow to London train London Underground Paris Metro subway Eurostar (London to Paris; Paris to London)
September 6, 200915 yr GCRTA NYC subway Boston T San Francisco Cable Car/Bus Eurostar high speed train all over Europe Florence, Italy metro bus Rome subway Venice water taxi Paris metro subway Barcelona Metro Prague Metro Berlin subway Frankfurt U-Bahn Amsterdam tram https://www.instagram.com/cle_and_beyond/https://www.instagram.com/jbkaufer/
September 6, 200915 yr Connecticut Transit Company (Bridgeport, CT) Washington Metro Central Ohio Transit Authority Greater Cleveland RTA Toledo Area RTA Chicago TA Omaha TA St. Louis Metro MBTA (Boston) NY Transit Authority NYNJ Port Authority New Haven (CT) and last but not least.... The Bar Harbor Maine Transit System (funded by a grant from the LL Bean Company and supplemented by an entirely voluntary fare system).
September 6, 200915 yr Cincinnati Metro Sounder Commuter Rail Seattle Sound Transit Light Rail Seattle Monorail King County Metro Sound Transit Pierce County Transit Amtrak Seattle Streetcar
September 6, 200915 yr Paris Metro Paris RER Lignes d'Azur (Nice, France) Cincinnati Metro New Jersey Transit Central Ohio Transit Authority Miami Metro (Oxford, Ohio) Ohio University Campus Area Transit Service (CATS)
September 6, 200915 yr Looks like this is a jerk-fest thread but I guess I'll throw in anyway... Amtrak Chicago CTA bus Chicago CTA "L" Chicago Metra commuter rail Cincinnati METRO bus Indianapolis IndyGo bus megabus Minneapolis Hiawatha LRT Minneapolis MetroTransit bus New Jersey Transit commuter rail New York-area MTA Metro North Railroad commuter rail New York MTA subway Northern Kentucky TANK bus Washington Metro subway
September 7, 200915 yr Cleveland RTA bus Cleveland RTA rapid Columbus COTA bus Chicago CTA bus Chicago CTA "El" Ann Arbor bus Boston T DC Metro train Houston Bus Jackson MS bus New Orleans Bus NYC subway Portland streetcar London bus London "tube" Paris subway Shanghai subway
September 7, 200915 yr Cincinnati (bus) Seattle (monorail) Portland (streetcar, light rail) San Francisco (subway, bus, cable car) Los Angeles (bus, subway, light rail) Las Vegas (monorail) Salt Lake City (light rail) Chicago (bus, el) Pittsburgh (lightrail/subway) DC (subway, bus) New York City (subway) Boston (subway) Montreal (subway) Paris (subway) London (subway) Rome (subway) Eastern Corridor Amtrak Train from London to Paris Train from Rome to Florence, and Florence to Venice
September 7, 200915 yr The train at Euclid Beach Park, Kings Island, Disney World, Lion Country Safari, and Cedar Point.
September 8, 200915 yr Paris, Charlotte, Berlin, Hamburg, German Inter-City, French Inter-City, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington...I don't even know. If you've ridden one good rail system, you've ridden them all. I think the important thing is (at least for Americans) just experiencing ONE system on a daily basis, ONCE in your life. Then it all makes sense.
September 8, 200915 yr Chicago | CTA and Metra trains and buses New York | MTA subways and buses, PATH Philadelphia | subways and buses Toronto | subways and streetcars Los Angeles | bus San Francisco | BART train and MUNI buses San Diego | Streetcars Columbus | bus Saginaw | bus Ann Arbor | bus Washington DC | subway Pittsburgh | light rail Detroit | AG and bus Minneapolis | Light Rail All over Switzerland and parts of Italy...trains trains trains.... Because I live right near the Mag. Mile in Chicago I typically walk the 15 blocks to work and get my basic needs within a few blocks and don't need the CTA. But I know when the weather gets ridiculously cold I'll be using those Michigan Ave. express buses
September 15, 200915 yr Looks like this is a jerk-fest thread but I guess I'll throw in anyway... hah, yeah. All these well-travelled jet-setting transit users. I used exactley two transit systems in my adult life for commuting 1. Metra (Chicago) to avoid suburban traffic snarls on a reverse commute. 2. RTA (Dayton), for a few months since my car was unreliable & I couldnt afford a new one. In both cases I was lucky that the station and bus stop was walking distance from work. I've used the following while on vacation or on visits to friends and family: 1. Toronto subway and streetcar 2. DC Metro 3. Chicago L 4. Atlanat MARTA 5. South Shore Line (long story) 6. Detroit People Mover (just to try it out). I've been on the Sacramento RTA light rail just for kicks, like the Detroit People Mover. When I was younger I spent a summer in Germany. Staying with my carless grandparents. While there we used: 1. Kraftwagen Betrieb Wetterau, a rural/small town bus line 2. Deutsches Bundesbahn local and express service 3. Trams in Frankfurt, Nurnberg, and Koblenz And, living in nearly carless household in Chicago we used 1. Chicago CTA busses and L (very frequent use) 2. Milwaulkee Road and Chicago & Northwestern commuter rail We also used the Milwaulkee Road for excursions up into Wisconsin. Also, one time Amtrak ride from Louisville to Chicago in 1971. And, Greyhound, to and from college and on summer visits to Chicago.
September 15, 200915 yr Jeffrey, that was a much more interesting post than the lists we've all put together. I enjoy reading the reasons for riding and utility gained. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 15, 200915 yr I guess another thread would be how many airlines you've flown. Maybe for the aviation subforum.
September 15, 200915 yr Cincinnati Metro Boston T San Francisco Streetcar NJ Transit NY Metro Greyhound
September 15, 200915 yr Just focusing on trains and not my adventures with Greyhound ... Boston Chicago Cleveland Washington, DC New York Oh, and the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic :) Amsterdam Berlin Bonn Brussels Duisburg Essen Gelsenkirchen The Hague Istanbul London Munich Paris Wuppertal (Best System Ever! Well, for kitsch value, anyway) Guelph to Toronto Seattle to Portland A bajillion RE and ICE trains through Germany Berlin to Amsterdam Berlin to Prague Brussels to Paris Cascais to Lisbon G'dansk to Poznan to Berlin The Hague to Brussels The Hague to Haarlem and Den Helder Porto to Lisbon Pula to Ljubljana to Zagreb And even a pushcar from Berlin to Zossen. Haha. Best Rides: Porto to Lisbon (a good stretch is along the water, and the Portuguese system was surprisingly nice); Traveling to and from Ljubljana (beautiful tree-covered hills everywhere!); and Munich to Garmisch-Padenkirchen ... love those Bavarian Alps!
September 15, 200915 yr United States Amtrak Atlanta – rail Baltimore – Lightrail & MARC Boston – T Charlotte – Lynx Cleveland – Bus, Heavy Rail & Light Rail Chicago – L, Bus, Metra Dallas – Dart Honolulu – The bus (I love it, they didn’t try to recreate the wheel) Houston – Metrorail Los Angeles – Subway and Bus Lost Wages – MonoRail Memphis – Trolley Miami – MetroMover & MetroRail New Jersey –New Jersey Transit [Commuter Rail, Light Rail, Newark City Subway, PATCO] New York Metro – NYC Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, NYC Transit & Staten Island Ferry PATH System Philadelphia (Septa - Subway, Regional Rail) Salt Lake –Light Rail San Diego – Light Rail San Francisco – Bart & Muni San Juan – Tren Urbano Tampa – Trolley Bus and Teco Trolley Washington, DC – MetroRail International Ankara – doesn’t really count as it’s like 6 stations Athens – subway and tram Barcelona – Trans Metro and Catalan railroad Beijing – Subway Berlin – S & u bahn & Tram Buenos Aires – Metrovias Caracas – Subway (it looks just like Atlanta’s subway) Curitiba – Bus Rapid Frankfurt Hong Kong Lisbon – Subway & Electricos London – Tube Madrid – Subway & tram Mexico City – Rubber tire subway Montreal – Subway Moscow – Subway (I could live in it) Paris – Subway Rio – Rio Metro Rome - Tokyo – Metro Torino – Bus & Subway ( nightmare ) Toronto – Subway & Street car
September 15, 200915 yr Today I regularly use... Laketran (Lake County) Greater Cleveland RTA As a kid I rode the PARTA (Portage County) bus occasionally, but I'm not sure it was called PARTA back then. When I lived with my Grandparents outside of Belfast we often rode the bus (Ulsterbus, I think was the name) or the Belfast Suburban Rail system. While on some vacations we used; Dublin, Ireland Bus Shannon, Ireland Bus London, UK Bus/Subway Liverpool, UK Bus Paris, France Subway Between High School and College I lived in Vienna for a summer working for a charitable organization that did a lot of work with Eastern Europe. In Vienna I rode Busses, Streetcars, Light Rail, Schnellbahn, the Subway, and some trains. In addition to all of that in Vienna itself, I got quite a few side trips on weekends, and got to do some delivering of supplies for the organization to some places that used to be behind the iron curtain. (And hey, if you're a volunteer and you get sent to drop off textbooks at a school 4 countries away, you don't exactly hurry back without enjoying yourself.) That summer is probably the biggest reason I like transit so much. When you have no car yourself, live with people that have no car, and travel around Europe with people that have no car you rack up a few transit systems if you want to get out and enjoy the various cities you're passing through. About 8 or 9 years ago I lived in San Antonio, TX and occasionally rode VIA, but it was underfunded and poorly organized. It took me over an hour to get from my office to my house, even though it was only 4 or 5 miles. It only took me a few rides to calculate that if I took the shortest possible route, I could walk home in a little over an hour save myself bus fare, and get some exercise while I was at it. By doing that and occasionally taking the bus when it was raining, my wife and I figured out we could share a car with each other, and we've been doing it ever since. As far as places I've just visited, I'm just going to name cities where I've used transit because I can't recall the names of all the systems and I'm too lazy to look them up. Europe Prague, Czech Rep. Train/Bus Pardubici, Czech Rep. Bus Budapest, Hungary Bus/Subway Chişinău, Moldova Bus (the most overlooked and underrated country in Europe IMO, just don't drink the water) Bucharest, Romania Bus Moscow, Russia Subway/Bus Minsk, Belarus Bus Plus a handful of other places in Poland, the Czech Rep., Belarus, and Slovakia whose names I can't recall (or spell). Asia Seoul, South Korea Train Kuwait City, Kuwait Bus North America Montreal, Canada Subway/Bus Toronto, Canada Streetcar/Bus Quebec City, Canada Bus Washington DC Bus/Subway Austin TX Bus Savannah GA Bus Charlestown SC Bus Orlando FL Bus And I'm sure I'm forgetting some here.
September 15, 200915 yr Dover-New Phila (a long time ago, when I was very young) Columbus Cleveland Dayton Youngstown Springfield Boston New York Buffalo Syracuse Pittsburgh Philadelphia Washington Atlanta Miami New Orleans Chattanooga Detroit (if the People Mover counts) Milwaukee Chicago (all modes) Minneapolis/St. Paul Rochester, Minn. Denver (pre-rail) Seattle (Monorail, pre-light-rail) Portland (pre-rail) San Francisco Los Angeles Las Vegas London Amsterdam Munich Zurich Milan Hong Kong Bangkok (pre rail) Assorted provincial Thai towns Also, I've ridden Amtrak in 15 states Tri-Rail from Miami MARC from DC Metra in Chicago Metro rail to LA Railways in England, Scotland, Wales, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Thailand
September 15, 200915 yr Dover-New Phila (a long time ago, when I was very young) Columbus Cleveland Dayton Youngstown Springfield Boston New York Buffalo Syracuse Pittsburgh Philadelphia Washington Atlanta Miami New Orleans Chattanooga Detroit (if the People Mover counts) Milwaukee Chicago (all modes) Minneapolis/St. Paul Rochester, Minn. Denver (pre-rail) Seattle (Monorail, pre-light-rail) Portland (pre-rail) San Francisco Los Angeles Las Vegas London Amsterdam Munich Zurich Milan Hong Kong Bangkok (pre rail) Assorted provincial Thai towns Dover-NewPhila has mass transit???? Or was that a thing of the past? I've never seen it (mister's mom lives there).
September 15, 200915 yr It died in the early- to mid-60s. As a tyke, I tagged along with my Grandma a couple times. Half-size, old blue buses.
September 20, 200915 yr Made a list, spell checked it and lost it...here goes again! Canton..bus (long before SARTA) Columbus COTA..bus AC Transit (Oakland/East Bay)..bus Alameda/Oakland Ferry Angel Island/Tiburon Ferry Amtrack Capital Corridor BART...subway/elevated train Blue and Gold Fleet Ferry Chicago CTA...El Chicago Metra..train Cal Train...train between SF and San Jose Laguna Beach Transit...bus (this tiny place has its own independent bus system) Los Angeles RTD...metro and bus New York Metro..subway and bus OCTD..bus (Orange County CA) Pittsburgh..streetcars and bus (before light rail) Newark NJ..subway and bus Sam Trans...bus San Diego..lightrail San Francisco..lightrail, metro, cablecar, bus, trolleybus, streetcar Santa Clara VTA (San Jose)...lightrail Sacramento...lightrail Seattle...monorail Washington DC Metro..subway Amsterdam..metro and trams Antwerp...trams Brussels..metro Budapest..metro Ghent..trams the Hague...trams Krakow..bus and the oddest "high speed" connection between the airport and city center ever devised London..metro and bus Paris...metro Prague...metro Vienna...metro and high speed airport connection Trains all over Europe....and tiny strange single track diesel lines in out of the way places. Those are the best. Also some train ferries...odd experience and mostly gone now. Not really that much! Surprised me when I actually made the list. A bit disappointing.
September 23, 200915 yr RTA as a commuter (but not now) Regularly (due to travel) Washington Metro Chicago CTA Toronto Occasionally Boston T New York PATH NJ Transit SF BART Atlanta MARTA Will be doing the St Louis Metrolink next month
September 23, 200915 yr Busses and or trains- chicago NYC Washington DC San Fran Seattle San Diego (seriously!) Boston Honolulu (which has the best name- TheBus) Philadelphia Cleveland International busses/trains/other (ie tram or cable car): 1st, second and third class (livestock rides for free!) Mexico St. John, Antigua London Genoa Rome Valencia Valletta (Malta) Zurich Stokholm Copenhagen Edinburgh That is all I can think of now. I usually always take public transport when visiting places. It is more fun and of course, cheaper. I am bummed out I did not get to take any public transportation in Beijing. I think the bus was something like 33 cents a trip.
October 11, 200915 yr Philly subway Montreal subway Toronto subway and streetcars Boston T Pittsburgh light rail Washington DC subway Baltimore subway Seattle monorail Columbus (bus) Chicago L Chicago suburbs/city Metra commuter trains NYC subway Path Trains from Jersey City, Newark, and Hoboken to NYC NJ transit bus from Hoboken to Jersey City to PATH train bound for NYC
October 12, 200915 yr Dude, you have a city with a rail system in your own state and you haven't ridden it? Get out and travel! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 13, 200915 yr Dude, you have a city with a rail system in your own state and you haven't ridden it? Get out and travel! For one I live in West Virginia (across the river from Ohio, but still). There is no reason on earth to ride the rail system in Cleveland. It would be a waste of time and I don't care for that city in the first place to be honest. Parking is cheap downtown too.
October 13, 200915 yr Dude, you have a city with a rail system in your own state and you haven't ridden it? Get out and travel! For one I live in West Virginia (across the river from Ohio, but still). There is no reason on earth to ride the rail system in Cleveland. It would be a waste of time and I don't care for that city in the first place to be honest. Parking is cheap downtown too. why?
October 13, 200915 yr Yet you're not even willing to give it a chance?? At least see this photo tour of the city from the rail system. Information can be a powerful tool to change one's view, or at least be a way to respect the history of why something is the way it is.... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16259.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16260.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16261.0.html "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 13, 200915 yr Yet you're not even willing to give it a chance?? At least see this photo tour of the city from the rail system. Information can be a powerful tool to change one's view, or at least be a way to respect the history of why something is the way it is.... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16259.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16260.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16261.0.html And more importantly you'll get to visit the best TOD in Ohio and one of the best in the country.
October 14, 200915 yr Yet you're not even willing to give it a chance?? At least see this photo tour of the city from the rail system. Information can be a powerful tool to change one's view, or at least be a way to respect the history of why something is the way it is.... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16259.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16260.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16261.0.html I have never said it was bad or anything. I have seen it many times. It is great for a city the size of Cleveland.
October 14, 200915 yr The rail/photo tour should at least be e-mailed to Positively Cleveland and other tourism sites -- people, most of whom, never set foot on transit and, hence, are incapable and/or disinterested in extolling its virtues to visitors. The photo tour visibly demonstrates just how much of Cleveland -- many of its hottest tourist areas, are directly reachable by rail.
October 14, 200915 yr Yet you're not even willing to give it a chance?? At least see this photo tour of the city from the rail system. Information can be a powerful tool to change one's view, or at least be a way to respect the history of why something is the way it is.... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16259.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16260.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16261.0.html I have never said it was bad or anything. I have seen it many times. It is great for a city the size of Cleveland. Dude, you have a city with a rail system in your own state and you haven't ridden it? Get out and travel! For one I live in West Virginia (across the river from Ohio, but still). There is no reason on earth to ride the rail system in Cleveland. It would be a waste of time and I don't care for that city in the first place to be honest. Parking is cheap downtown too. Make up your mind. Which is it? How can you say that it's a waste of time when you haven't experienced the system. Also the system takes you area's outside of downtown.
October 14, 200915 yr Cincinnati Metro Bus Dayton RTA Bus Minneapolis Hiawatha Light Rail Minneapolis Metro Bus San Francisco BART Montreal Subway Boston T Washington DC Subway Chicago L NYC Subway Love the Light Rail in Minneapolis. In the past I've purposely scheduled a long layover and took the train to a Twins game, downtown to eat, as well as to The Mall of America for a roller coaster ride or two. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
January 29, 201015 yr United States: * Chicago CTA bus * Chicago L * Chicago Metra rail * San Francisco BART Not sure if these are considered "true" mass transit..... * Sandusky-Cedar Point ferry (non-existent today) * Port Clinton-Islands ferry ----------------------- Italia: * Rome subway * Rimini bus system * Venice ferry .....I have yet to ride an Amtrak train or any mass transit system in Ohio (probably because I don't live there at the moment LOL). I know some in my family like to drive (bear in mind, they're coming from the west) to the Triskitt? station (easy parking) and take the Rapid the rest of the way to an Indians game, etc. Maybe some day for me :)
January 31, 201015 yr Let's see..... Amtrak Greyhound RTA Lorain County Transit LA MTA (plus the old RTD) Big Blue Bus (Santa Monica, CA) Culver City Bus (Culver City, CA) Long Beach Transit OCTA (and the old OCTD..Orange County, CA) LA DOT Buses (Commuter Express and DASH (sort of like the old Circulators, but much cheaper)) Simi Valley Transit Metrolink (SoCal Commuter Rail) San Diego Transit San Diego Trolley San Diego MTS Buses NCTD (Northern San Diego County) MUNI (SF) BART SamTrans (San Mateo County, Bay Area) Golden Gate Transit (Marin County, CA) Foothill Transit (East San Gabriel Valley and Pomona Valley..CA) Montebello Bus Lines (Montebello, CA) Gardena Municipal Bus Lines (CA) Torrance Transit (CA) CalTrain Los Angeles (short-lived commuter train in the early 80s) CalTrain SF Bay Area (San Francisco thru San Mateo County down the South Bay peninsula (past Palo Alto) to San Jose/Gilroy) CAT (Vegas)..which is now the RTC. CTA (Chicago) Santa Barbara MTD Sacramento Regional Transit District DC Metro SEPTA (Philly) NJ Transit PATH (Train between Hoboken/Jersey City/Newark & Manhattan) NYC Transit (regular NYC buses & subway) New York Bus Service (routes now operated by MTA Bus) Liberty Lines (ditto) Long Island Rail Road MTA Bus Triboro Coach Co (now operated by MTA bus) Steinway Transit (later Queens Surface, then taken over by MTA bus) Staten Island Railway The T (Boston) Montreal Metro London Underground London Buses British Rail (now split up into a bunch of private contracted operators) Merseyrail (Liverpool) Green Line (London suburban/commuter buses) Conrail (later Metro-North...northern NYC 'burbs) UTA (Salt Lake City) Local buses in Shrewsbury, UK
February 6, 201015 yr OK, you've got to be a railbuff if you rode (and remember the name of) CalTrain Los Angeles! And you've got be older than me if you rode Conrail's NYC commuter trains, which were turned over to MetroNorth in 1981 (unless, of course, you were a kid which it doesn't sound like you were). "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 6, 201015 yr My favorite (not necessarily the best) was Pittsburgh's light rail/subway/bus because I could imagine it in Cincy and I just like the Burgh. I'll list the rest later but first, has anyone else used the Capitol building's underground tram line? Pretty neat down there.
February 6, 201015 yr I've ridden the Capitol "subway." It was like riding an enlarged, horizontal version of one of those wheelchair lifts added onto the side of a stairway. At least it went fast enough to create a breeze. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 6, 201015 yr I've ridden the Capitol "subway." It was like riding an enlarged, horizontal version of one of those wheelchair lifts added onto the side of a stairway. At least it went fast enough to create a breeze. Haha, YES. It feels like a kiddie ride at an amusement park mixed with the Popemobile. I wonder about its history now.
February 6, 201015 yr They let "normals" use that? I remember seeing it as a kid but thought it was only for "important people". Er, not saying you guys aren't important...
February 6, 201015 yr They let "normals" use that? I remember seeing it as a kid but thought it was only for "important people". Er, not saying you guys aren't important... I've always had to have clearance and I don't think it's public; ergo, I'm important. Duh. Here's a pic I took:
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