Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle:
Traveling can be fun and adventurous, but it can also be instructive in how some cities seem to be work better than San Francisco. There’s no question that when it comes to public transportation, London and many other cities in Europe and Asia have San Francisco squarely beat.
“You must have been riding the Tube a lot and seeing what it’s like to have a functional transit network,” Hayden Clarkin, a former San Francisco resident who now lives in New York, told me when I described my trip. He’s a transportation engineer and founded TransitCon, an annual gathering devoted to public transportation and the people who love it.
“And San Francisco is one of the best cities in America for transit, so what does that tell you?” he added with a laugh.
