Londoners could teach New Yorkers what a transport ‘summer of hell’ really is | Jean Hannah Edelstein
Reactions to our temperamental transport systems are rooted in our national character: the problem for Americans is that they expect things to work
As a child growing up in a semi-rural suburb, I was desperate for access to public transportation, for the ability to go beyond my garden without having to ask my mum or dad to drive me in the family car. I got what I wished for, I guess, if what I wished for was a system that earlier this summer was declared to be in a state of emergency. As I spent nine years living and working in London before I moved to New York City in 2014, people on both sides of the Atlantic often ask me which city I prefer. But in 2017, a more pertinent question is: which “summer of hell” would you rather endure?
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Source: Guardian Transport
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