No wonder overseas Chinese in United States are moving back to China! US has the WORST transportation system! 難怪在美國的華僑紛紛搬回中國！美國的交通系統真是最糟糕的!
Nury Vittachi: THE WORLD’S BEST-SERVED big city dwellers for public transport are in Moscow in Russia, Hong Kong in China, and Sydney in Australia, a new US survey reports.
And citizens of Tehran in Iran were better served with public transport than residents of any American city, the study found.
Sydney, Moscow and Hong Kong all had 170+ public transport vehicles per 100,000 residents, making it easy for non-motorists to get around. Barcelona (Spain) and Oslo (Norway) also had many options, although they are smaller cities.
In contrast, the average number of transit vehicles for US urban residents was just 27, and some cities had no more than a handful of occasional buses—leaving people without private cars unable to travel, said the new study by Transportation for America.
OPTIONS FOR ‘ORDINARY’ PEOPLE
This lack of public transport greatly disadvantaged the “ordinary” or non-wealthy citizens in the US, and was also a pollution issue, since travel by private cars is far less environmentally friendly than use of public transport options, especially in non-EV countries.
Sydney, Moscow and Hong Kong were all large cities (between five and 13 million) with more than 170 public transport vehicles per 100,000 citizens, the study showed. In contrast, Houston had just 16, despite being the fourth largest city in the US.
US IS LAGGING IRAN
The only city in the US with a strong public transport system was New York. But it lagged behind Iran’s capital. Tehran’s citizens are provided with 100 public transport vehicles per 100,000 citizens, above New York’s 88, researchers said.
“To give Americans the freedom to choose world-class transit options, just like citizens in other highly developed economies do, we would need to nearly triple the number of transit vehicles in service available today,” the study said.
“At current costs, realizing that vision could take a total investment of US$4.6 trillion over a twenty-year timeline.”
China, meanwhile, is building the world’s biggest public metro systems in multiple cities at breakneck speed. The provision of plentiful, affordable public transport systems is one of the factors that make the east feel more democratic than the west, commentators have said in the past.
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