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"The Bay Area has some of the best transit options in the country, "

[citation needed].

It really doesn't. In fact, it notoriously has pretty much the most underdeveloped public transit options of any major city in the US.

(and while folks disagree on #1, i don't think anyone would disagree it's in the top 5 worst)

In DC, i could easily get to work pretty much anywhere in the city in roughly the same time or less i could by driving.

In NY, ditto.

In the bay area, it would probably be 2x the drive time, and a serious pain in the ass (and that's saying a lot, given how bad the drive times are) ]




These two.

I agree the Bay Area has some of the loudest advocates for better transit, but it doesn't appear that it actually gets better than this except in Manhattan (and Europe).

[0] https://smartasset.com/mortgage/best-cities-for-public-trans...

[1] https://www.redfin.com/blog/2015/12/transit-score-2016.html


I'm not sure i agree with either methodology (The one in #1 is just, IMHO, strange), but i'll agree that you have proved somebody believes it :)


Indeed. I am an Austrian expat in San Jose; the public transit in the Bay is at best a sad joke compared to Vienna.




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