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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 5342765" data-attributes="member: 56035">my buddy who lives in EU for years, says public transport which is best by north american standards would be worst by EU standards.   I read travel books; even the commies built good systems in eastern EU.  north americans are just less civilized and our public transport is an example of that.NYC is so corrupt you dont even get padded seats on the subway.  its all plastic.  look at the photos.  NYC is awash in wealth too.  we are less civilized than EU.  the fast train i took from amsterdam airport to downtown had big padded seats.  vancouver trains have thinly padded seats aside from the wheelchair seat which is padded.</blockquote>