I lived in Chicago for three years without a car. In terms of getting around downtown, the El is fine. METRA is far better for getting in from the suburbs than CalTrain.
I like how the labels obscure the fact that BART just cuts a line through the city of San Francisco. Also funny is how the legend at the bottom of the map blots out the parts of south bay where everything actually is.
Note also that the Chicago map is just a route map, and bears little relation to the geography of Chicago.
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I lived in Chicago for three years without a car. In terms of getting around downtown, the El is fine. METRA is far better for getting in from the suburbs than CalTrain.
I think its all relative. I compare Chicago mass transit to London, Tokyo, and New York. Hard to compete with those cities.
Sure, but you were comparing it to San Francisco.
I forgot to add SF to that list. I admit most of time was on the BART and not on CalTrain.
There is no way SF compares with New York, London or Tokyo.
This is the BART map: http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/images/2008/02/big_bart_map....
This is the El map: http://sites.williams.edu/thea228/files/2011/09/Chicago-El.j....
This is the New York subway map: http://images.nycsubway.org/maps/calcagno-2010-06-28c.gif
There is no contest.
I like how the labels obscure the fact that BART just cuts a line through the city of San Francisco. Also funny is how the legend at the bottom of the map blots out the parts of south bay where everything actually is.
Note also that the Chicago map is just a route map, and bears little relation to the geography of Chicago.