For those travelling to London from San Francisco, please change at Seattle and The Hague

[almostwitty]

See a cool London Underground-style map of all the cities in the world that have, or are planning to build, a mass transit public system. Have literally minutes of fun dreaming of being able to traverse the world as easily (or not) as changing tube lines in London.

Comments

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I love the graphic - although they really shouldn't have put San Francisco north of Sacramento.

I know, I know, it's not to scale. ;)

[countessof-roth.livejournal.com]

HAH! I looked at this for a good minute and 1/2 before I realized I couldn't find the stations I'm most familiar with. "wtf!? where is baker St and Swiss cottage?!?!? it was RIGHT HERE a year ago!"

And then I read it carefully and was all like "oh COOL!"

Chicago's mass transit is not as good as Londons, but is significantly better than Romes. (in my opinion) Chicago is just too sprawling like, the only way to get from say Wheaton to Evanston is to take a train into the city and another one out. about 2 hours of travel time at the minimum. Thats one thing I did notice about London while we were traveling to Bath, it was like LA LA LA city LA LA LA CITY BOOM countryside, not nearly as many suburbs that stretch for a 40 mile radius.

[almostwitty]

London's the same way. I used to live in Potters Bar, and work in Gerrards Cross - and the only way to get there on public transport was to literally go south into the city, and go west back out again. Or I could drive straight there...

[countessof-roth.livejournal.com]

The few times i've been there, i've had to rely on public transport so I probably didn't notice as much not being a native. :D
The day we decided to go to Glastonbury it took us literally 4 hours. When I guess we could have driven it in an hour and 1/2 or two hours. Whoops. But then again, with the price of gas it was probably cheaper for us to take the train and the bus.

[cleobourne.livejournal.com]

That would be so cool.

[nhyrvana.livejournal.com]

WOW! I went from Lima to Bologna last April, and all I really needed to do to get to Liverpool was change at Izmir!!

Meanwhile...WTF?!?! NEWARK as a HUB!?! (and Chicago is further east than Minneapolis, they should switch those...and I knew a few Irish lads who will be salty that Belfast isn't on there...I guess they'll have to walk.)

-emily