> Transit: The New York City Subway is the 3rd largest metro rail system on earth after London and Guangzhou
It’s also the worst large metro system, by timeliness and reliability, in the world, despite being very well funded.
People in the rest of the country aren’t exactly unaware of New York. But its transit, housing, and public school systems are a poster child for how government-run services are terrible, even when well funded. There’s a reason why New York has suffered net domestic outmigration for many years.
Look, if Stockholm was in America the American public would have a very different idea of what government-run services could be like. But we don’t have Swedes running our government services, we have Americans. It is what it is.
> It’s also the worst large metro system, by timeliness and reliability, in the world, despite being very well funded.
You forgot to mention cleanliness, comfort, and safety, where it also is just atrocious compared to other metro systems outside US.
Praising NYC subway for being really big sounds to me similar to Soviet Union boasting how many tons of steel it produced. It sure did, but its citizens would have preferred instead to get something other than 1000 additional tanks.
It’s also the worst large metro system, by timeliness and reliability, in the world, despite being very well funded.
People in the rest of the country aren’t exactly unaware of New York. But its transit, housing, and public school systems are a poster child for how government-run services are terrible, even when well funded. There’s a reason why New York has suffered net domestic outmigration for many years.
Look, if Stockholm was in America the American public would have a very different idea of what government-run services could be like. But we don’t have Swedes running our government services, we have Americans. It is what it is.