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Re: SEPTA named North America's ''best large transit system'' by APTA |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Jul 27 16:11:17 2012, in response to Re: SEPTA named North America's ''best large transit system'' by APTA, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Fri Jul 27 14:41:54 2012. While I am not exhaustively familiar with the entire SEPTA system, I would suspect that MTA/NYCT by itself operates more trains than the entire SEPTA system including its commuter and suburban operations. If you add in the MTA's M/N and LIRR operations along with the surface system and MTA Bus. I don't think another transit system in the country can come even close. What many uninformed people don't realize when other transit systems are compared to MTA is that what are "suburbs" in other metropolitan areas such as Boston, San Francisco and Washington DC were absorbed into the city of New York at the end of the 19th Century. Based on that, I wouldn't consider SEPTA a "large" transit system and if you consider that its commuter and suburban operations are included, than it raises the question as to what constitutes a "transit system" in the first place. How can you compare true transit systems line WMATA and CTA which operate only "rapid transit" lines and intra city buses or BART which operate Rapid transit lines and no buses with a system like SEPTA and MBTA which operates what amounts to a system that also includes commuter railroads? |
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