Public Transportation

I briefly touched upon this when I talked about Europeans, Germans in particular, being environmentalist. Since going to Chicago over Spring Break, I noticed that the Public Transportation here in the United States is NOT EVEN CLOSE, to as good as in Germany.

The city trains don't run very often and are often late. Nothing is posted as to how to get somewhere. (Thank God for iPhones or I would of been so lost in Chicago) My friend, who lives in Chicago, said it takes an hour and a half for her to get to work and it would be a 30 minute drive.

It is very frustrating to see our transportation after coming back from Europe because their system runs like clock work and in America our public transportation runs like a broken clock.

Picture of the Chicago Metro in North Chicago

It is not necessary at all in Europe to have a car, but here you will get no where if you don't have one. We may add a lot to pollution as Americans, but until a more viable option comes available to us, we are going to continue to drive cars.