Originally Posted by Perche

Just go into Penn Station or the subway in Times Square. It's like La Guardia airport. To call it third world is an insult to the third world. Go to the subway in Naples, or Torino, and the difference between modern transportation and transportation in the USA will leave you stunned. You just need to read the headlines. Every day the trains are broken because they derail, they go on spontaneous fire, the overhead wires collapse and fall on them. Once a month or so there is a strike in Italy, and even during the strike, there are periods of time where the trains run normally. In NYC, you cannot count on the trains.