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Originally Posted by nname
These are exactly the countries I'm talking about. Although these countries seems to have better road and public transit infrastructures, but they are awfully inadequate during peak hours. The traffic jam are much worse and train and buses are way overcrowded. When I was there, I'd avoid peak hour travel at all cost, while I'm pretty much indifferent in Vancouver...
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Agreed.
My life experiences don't come from Asia but rather Europe, North, Central and South America but I assume the problems will be fairly similar.
During peak times its not just the transportation and transit infrastructure that often suffers but its the even more important stuff like the power grid, water distribution,etc. In Vancouver stuff just works, the water comes out of your tap nice and clean every day, your power is always on and stable, natural gas keeps flowing, transit and roads are generally usable even during peak times, toilets flush even with toilet paper in them, etc....
Most places dont have it so good.