Who /loves public transportation/ here? I recently moved to a city that has a decent bus system...

Then that's acceptable. Most do not.

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vroom

It's beautiful

I fucking love it. Living in the Netherlands, which has some top tier public transit, it's great. But last year, when I visited a Chinese comrade in Futian, Shenzhen, I got to see some absolutely amazing shit like metros, bullet trains, etc. We also went to Hong Kong and rode the iconic red buses (leftovers from the British colonial era, but they're very much altered) which were very aesthetic, and I learned that public transit is doing so well in Hong Kong because it's one of the few things incredibly well-unionised there. The HKCTU, while little more than social democratic, does a good job at this, and public transit workers are well sustained.

In the unionized utopia of Fort McMurray the bus only costs $1.25. Everyone is happy from the opportunities provided to them from a fair wage, bus drivers are chilled out and friendly unlike the ones often encountered in big cities.
breddy gud/10

Is it Amsterdam that has the free public bikes you can just take off the racks, or am I thinking of Copenhagen?

lol the ring line

There is a state-owned (but subsidized privately, which sadly happened a few years ago) called OV-fiets ("public transit bike"), which for only 10 euros a year lets you grab any of such OV-fiets bikes and drive around with them. You use a little card, either anonymously registered or not (guess where the need to include a register option with "fun" extras comes from *oink*), and whenever you take it from a stand you scan the card, it unlocks the bike from a stand and you can drive it around whenever, wherever, as long as you check it back in at one of the stands within the week. It's similar to a library card with a book, and this is not just in Amsterdam, but everywhere the service is (which is basically anywhere but bumfuck countrysides).

I live in rural NE Ohio, so non-existent.
The only real experience I have with public transport was when I lived in Cincinnati, the bus system was third-rate at best.
There is a partially finished subway system there, but it's been abandoned since the 1920's.