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Public Transportation Withdrawal

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: transport-policy listserv
15 October 2004 - 5:00am

Atlanta resident Charles Lyon suffers public transportation withdrawal after ten days in New York.

"The strangest thing about returning to Atlanta after 10 days in New York City was having to drive a car again... In New York, I left the driving to professionals — cabbies, subway motormen, train engineers, bus drivers and ferry captains...

Atlanta would do well to study the transportation infrastructure of New York City. It is, in a word, marvelous. From the Long Island Railroad to the Hoboken Ferry, commuters in New York enjoy an interlocking transportation system that, on balance, is efficient and affordable," Lyon writes.

Full Story: Follow transit model in New York minute
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 14, 2004
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