Having lived and worked in St. Louis, MatrixWorks, I can agree with some of the things you say but the transit system in St. Louis is far and away better than it is here in Phoenix and we've got more people.  We don't have a light rail system yet and the bus system is just plain dreadful.  We've got buses here than only run every hour and the other ones run at either 15 min schedules during work hours only or at 30 min schedules.  The more populated lines drop to half-hour schedules at 6 pm and all the buses stop running at 8 pm on Sundays which is really stupid.  Most of the time I plan on at least 45 minutes to an hour just to go 5 miles because it's a two bus ride.

Hugz from Phoenix, USA

Victoria

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