[PRCo] Re: Historical Question

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
> Herb
>
> St. Petersburg (Leningrad) was ONCE a great system, but it has been decimated in recent years.  Well run?  NOT.  It is so starved for funds that it cannot keep enough cars in service to maintain schedules.  Much track is so corrugated that any speed over 5-10 mph is impossible to attain.
>
> During the last decade I rode all available track there.  Probably 50% of what I rode is now history.  What is left is largely Balkanized into Metro connectors.  Sad.
>
> If you want to ride a "great, well run, transit system" that really is, try Wien, Osterreich (Vienna, Austria for westerners).  And it's a lot easier to get to than St. Petersburg!
>

The Geneve system was pretty nice, worked reasonably, and is being
expanded to CERN (useful to me anyway)