Majulah Singapura! 
you know this ranking is bs because american cities are featured in the top 50
Chicago>Barcelona according to this list which is a huge joke. Barcelona's MRT system is basically on par with SG's in terms of cleanliness, comprehensiveness and frequency, whereas the Chicago one is like some soviet era aluminum tube that comes once per 15-30 minutes, even less frequent for their buses.
sf before munich as well. its a joke to call whatever sf has a public transport system
For those wondering, the SF BART (MRT) ride is about $4 USD (one way), very dirty and smelly, the subways are filled with rats and the trains are squeaky roller coasters.
Anybody who thinks it's 16th in the world is out of their minds.
And Tokyo at no 7? Tokyo rails carry more people than all the 6 combined.
Tokyo loses points in my book because they have 2 separate subway (Tokyo metro and Toei) and an additional aboveground (JR) networks who share almost zero infrastructure with each other. You sometimes have to tap out, go above ground, then enter another station just to change trains. Our Dhoby Ghaut station has no equivalent in Tokyo in terms of interconnection.
Tokyo Station alone is larger and busier than most airports, not even taking Shinjuku or Shibuya into account.
All you need is one Suica or Pasmo card, which you can tap in and out for all trains and bus. With your smart phone, you don't even have to unlock your phone and just go through, unlike in Singapore.
Yeah I for one am baffled as to how the heck Los Angeles's public transport comes anywhere near the Top 50. LA's public transport is absolute garbage. I'm sure SF is about as bad (cuz public transport across CA sucks in general), but thankfully I didn't need to suffer the misfortune of living in SF.
Sinkie living in Japan. Sorry but there is no way that the Tokyo public transport system is better.
Can't understand why so many Singaporeans have a hard time being proud of the local transport system.
Those sinkies that normally complain are those stuck in Singapore, never travel to see the world, only stuck in their tiny home behind their phone complain
Oh, they travel. But they do it just for the gram. Not for learning, not for widening their perspective of the world.
If they admit that other countries are not slam-dunk better than SG, how are they gonna show off they've been there, and how superior they now are to you?
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This person is wrong. And r-slurred
Tokyo has way more networks than that. JR, Tokyu, Odakyu, Toei, Keio, Tokyo Metro, Seibu, Tobu, Keisei, plus some other isolated private lines. All of them are owned by different companies.
And they all share stations and have 1-2 minute transfers between each other with a unified metro card system. If you have any issue switching between them you must be special needs except for a choice few massive stations
It's perfect privatization and works pretty much flawlessly with lots of redundancy and joint service between them. Please thank the US for firebombing the old tracks into oblivion and then funding fancy new infrastructure.
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I mean Jesus even Kyoto has more networks than xe claims Tokyo has lol
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lmao i managed to navigate it while high on ambien so you're right
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Shinjuku is a fever dream if you're fricked up. You can follow the signs and end up at forks where neither of them go the correct way. Or you'll get led into a 6th floor dead end sub basement. Or it will just be flat out wrong.
If someone has lots of issues I just assume they're a tourist who somehow routed through there every day and it left a bad taste in their mouth.
Pretty much every other station is navigable by toddlers though
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i only have sparse memories of tokyo
but i know i did the mario kart shit and went to that electronics building that weebs loved and sobered up when i reached kyoto LOL
fricking ambien
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We are NOT friends anymore. Please see yourself out of my life
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i may or may not have done it but based on the photos i was at that area but i dont remember
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Being able to completely rebuild their massive city with modern transportation needs in mind is just an unfair advantage for the Japanese. China has been trying to build good public transport but it's impossible to build in central areas of the big Chinese cities so none of the stations are central enough.
Nobody's going to get on a train if you have to drive to the station :/
Japanese stations definitely confuse the shit out of tourists that can't read or speak Japanese, but honestly if you go to Japan without knowing the language first, skill issue.
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Idk when the last time you were here was but most stations have had complete English signage since like 2018
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It's been about 5 years so checks out.
Last time I went was before covid
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