How reliable is public transit in your State?

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1. In urban and many suburbs, great to good enough. In rural areas, subpar to non existent.

2. Might as well not exist

3. On the State level, the answer to your question is basically nonexistent.

   At the city level, some cities have excellent public transit, others have minimal.

4. Public transport is not a state-level thing for the most part. At least not the way people normally mean it as far as things like work commutes.

   Rural vs. Urban is usually the difference with some cities doing better than others.

5. NJTransit often sucks, but at least in northern NJ, it’s got a decent range and schedule.

6. We all *rely* on it… to our chagrin.

   The MBTA is metaphorically, and sometimes literally [on fire](https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/why-did-an-orange-line-train-catch-fire-heres-what-we-know/2780420/). The last year or two is as bad as I’ve ever seen the system. We have a new governor who hired a new GM, whose starting on Monday. So we’ll see in the coming years if anything improves. If it doesn’t, I presume FTA will federalize it.

7. Not great. And I live in a big city.

8. awful and unreliable. and i’m not even rural, i live in LA county.

   my husband’s commute was 17 miles and took 45 min of driving one way. if he took the train it would be 2.5 hours one way. this is why we have so much traffic 🙁

   meanwhile my commute was opposite traffic so the 38 miles took 35 minutes.

9. Better than any other place I’ve ever lived. I can take TriMet all over the city and suburbs. I can take a public bus from Portland to the coast, and all down it. Or to Mt Hood. I can take Amtrak to Seattle or Eugene

   It could be better. But coming from places where there is practically none, I’m blown away.

10. Public transit in Birmingham is notoriously awful. The bus stops are in weird, inconvenient locations and aren’t sheltered. Very little has been invested into the transit system because Alabama is one of the few states that does not fund public transit, so municipalities have to front the bill.

11. It’s good in the Bay Area and really good in San Francisco city. Most people in SF don’t own cars because they don’t need them.

    Not good on a state level though. And I don’t think LA has a good network but I haven’t lived there.

12. Not reliable and certainly not safe

13. In my state? Awful. The closest thing is Greyhound, though we actually might be getting some very limited passenger rail.

    Intra-city public transit is fine, IMO. My city has a bus system that punches well above its weight class, and other cities in the state are pretty good too, IMO.

14. It is reliable, just almost non-exitent in my largely rural state…

    … which now that I think of it, isn’t exactly true. Vermont funds a rural transport system that offers transport to things like doctor’s appointments, jobs, bank visits, etc. for people who qualify. It isn’t quite what we think of when we use the term “public transit”, but it is very reliable.

15. In general? Shit

    Relative to the rest of the country? Pretty good

16. Horrible at best and non-existent as worst

17. I live in Ohio, so pretty bad. Keep in mind that we’re not densely populated like the New England states, so there’s minimal demand for public transit here.

    We do have the RTA bus. It’ll extend out to the suburbs and gives access to the entire Dayton metropolitan area which is about 800k people. The bus stops end basically as soon as you reach the first cornfields. Rural areas have nonexistent public transit.

    Other Ohio cities like Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland have the same offerings.

18. Does not exist outside of the major cities.

19. There is no public transit for the whole state. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have rail and bus systems, some of the smaller cities have bus or shuttle systems (especially places like State College) but they are managed by different agencies. There are long-distance trains through Amtrak and long distance buses through various private companies.

    Anyway, here in Philly, SEPTA has lots of problems but I’m glad it exists. As flawed as it is it’s one of the more comprehensive systems in the country.

20. Very reliable.

21. What is this public transit you speak of?

22. Yall got public transit?

23. I’m not even sure it exists. Maybe in Tulsa or OKC.

24. We don’t have it where I live lol. Only way you’re getting around for free is with them dogs 👣

25. What public transit