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London, UK? Which happens to have one of the best and largest underground system in the world covering almost all areas of the inner city. Then you have the train service to get you out to the outer parts, and then the buses?

Admittedly, once you get to rural parts of the UK the public transport sucks, but day or night, I can get myself around London without too much of a wait.

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Even just purely by bus, London is night and day different from any American city. You rarely have to wait more than 10 minutes for a bus, and often they come just a few minutes apart.

Now, like the GP, I also cycle around London, and it is by far the best way to get through central London during rush hour, but bus drivers here are aggressive and they tend to be quite a bit more efficient than their sparsely populated American counter-parts who are brow-beaten into submission by aggressive American sedan drivers who've never heard of public transportation or sharing the road.

Some routes are very sub-optimal though. But you can't satisfy everyone's needs.

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