Review of Public Transportation in Different Parts of the World

I decided to write yet another post about American transportation because how bad it is in Raleigh. It's the first US city I live in without "transit centers" (large bus stops with many lines). I used to think San Diego was spread out, but none of the other cities can compete on emptiness with NC's capital city, which was built in the middle, a mountainless oceanless natural-lake-less non-flat non-hilly spot of NC.

San Diego

San Francisco

Greater Seattle

Raleigh

Like I mentioned, this place has very few people and people love big, big cars. No light rail, no subway, less than 20 bus routes. Shanghai's subway routes is actually denser and covers areas better. The routes' only intersects in downtown, that's the only place you'd see more than 1 bus in an hour.

At the top of this post I said Raleigh doesn't have "transit centers", well, there's one in downtown Raleigh called GoRaleigh Station with 5 platforms. However, the place looks more like a combination of parking lot and hang out spots for drug addicts.

You'd feel the 3 cities above are fine if you live here for a few days.

Pros: greenway

Cons: lack of bike lanes. Some streets have bike lanes but only on one side. Use Google Maps to find the routes!

Shanghai

Bikes not allowed on the subway, so where you can comfortably go to are kinda limited to areas near subway stations. Fortunately, the density of stations is fine within the inner ring road, where I spent most of my time.

No pedestrian bridge over Huangpu river. Why? Even the much longer golden gate bridge and every bridge in Chaing-chiu allows pedestrians.