Originally Posted by
helmut
You have no idea what you're talking about. I used to commute for 90 minutes in and out of Sydney every day.
There's an extensive network of trains from Wollongong to Newcastle, Bondi to Penrith. Trains carry more commuters every day in Sydney than any other form of transport. Smallish populations?? The Sydney metro is home to 4.5 million people. That's a large city by most standards. Please, stop talking about a place you have no idea about.
I lived in Australia for my first 42 years of life. I have never lived in Sydney, but have been there countless times, my father lives there. I was there in Febuary. I have driven there, ridden bikes there, and used the public transport system numerous times.
However, I have lived the last year in a city of 11 million, a smallish city for China, and the two previous years in Seoul. The greater Seoul metro area population is 24 million. Sydney is small.
If you want to see what public transport can really be like, go to a big city. In
Seoul there are no subway timetables, you just go there. If you missed the last subway, you might have to way for three minutes. There are some great public transport benefits that come with population size, and, in Seoul's case, this is increased by population density.
Now this is a metro system:
Passengers carried per day: 5.6 million.
Cost to get from one side of the city to the other USD$1.50
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