>>1166370It's so fascinating to me how, on paper, Philly and Boston's systems are nearly identical (each city has two full-size heavy rail rapid transit lines that serve large swaths of the city itself, one lower-capacity heavy rail rapid transit line that connects the downtown with a bunch of shit across a body of water, and a streetcar network that runs underground through the city core), while in practice, Philly's public transit is essentially non-existent while the Boston's is as essential as NYC's, with the insane ridership per system mile stats to match.
