Cities with great metro systems outside the US

[Amira]

What non-US cities have good metro systems?  

 

I just spent a few weeks riding the Metro in Mexico City and it reminded me how much I like to be in cities with good subway systems.  I really want to live in Tashkent and St. Petersburg and ride theirs for a while. :)

[OneStepAtATime]

Well, Paris has a really good metro system (or did a few years ago).  So easy to use!

 

I found the metro in London pretty user friendly as well.

[Happy]

Paris! So very easy to use.

 

London is good and easy, too.

 

[Greta]

My only experience is with London, and I thought it was absolutely fantastic. Very impressive to this American who has never lived in a city with good public transportation of any form.

[CSL]

Hong Kong has a great system. Having an "Octopus Card" you can use any public transportation, subway, buses, ferries, trams etc. I don't think there is anywhere in Hong Kong that you cannot get to by public transit.

[Pam in CT]

Tokyo.  Moscow.  Amsterdam.  Copenhagan.  

 

I was on my own without a car in Boston recently and was pleasantly surprised how well the T worked.  In the US, I've only ever been familiar with the systems in NY (which goes everywhere but is still not so pleasant, though much better than it used to be); and WDC (which never goes anywhere near anywhere I actually want to go).

[umsami]

Paris and London immediately come to mind.

 

Cairo has a metro system which works well if where you want to go is on the system.  It's incredibly cheap…but also incredibly crowded.

 

I seem to remember that Rome has a metro system as well.  I might be imagining it.  We usually walked in Rome…and it's been awhile…so…don't hold me to that.

[BrittanyM]

Buenos Aires

[Arcadia]

Hong Kong is wonderful on a tourist octopus MTR card. Paris and Tokyo are user friendly too.

 

Switzerland has a nice rail system between cities.

 

My home country which is a city nation has metro countrywide except for smaller outlying islands where you take the ferries. Takes away the need to own a car even though people would still buy one.

[kubiac]

Moscow.

[8circles]

Prague

[Miss Tick]

Kyoto has a nice bus system we used for a week. I used the train around Osaka, but mostly between the job site and the hotel, but one weekend to Meiji Castle.

[Miss Tick]

Kyoto has a nice bus system we used for a week. I used the train around Osaka, but mostly between the job site and the hotel, but one weekend to Meiji Castle.

[Cammie]

We just returned from a week in Singapore and LOVED the train system.  So easy, convenient, safe, clean, cheap.  It got us everywhere we needed to go (except the zoo which was a little bit on the edge).  My ds (9) was in charge of the metro map and figuring out how we would go from point A to point B. Every city should be so lucky to have such a great system in place!