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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5882384" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Europe has high speed trains connecting cities.  They don't have them everywhere like you want.  They still have to catch buses or taxis to and from the stations.  It's anything but efficient.  NYC is the only city in the U.S. that has more people using public transportation than own cars.  Makes perfect sense if you're living in a relatively small area with people stacked up on top of each other.  But in a typical American metro area with a core big city surrounded by smaller suburb cities you'd have to figure on serious amounts of time to use public transportation to get to and from work.  Unless you live and work on the same bus route or there's a light rail station within a few blocks that will take you close to where you work.  Most people aren't that lucky.</p></blockquote><p></p>