How do you get around your hometown?

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Hello Local Guides!

I’m curious what the main modes of transportation in your city look like! I imagine we all have very different or interesting ways of getting around town. I thought it would be fun to share a couple of ways people get around my hometown of New York City!

The New York City Subway has both underground and above-ground trains that help millions of commuters get where they need to go everyday. The subways run 24 hours a day!

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As New York City is so large, we also have plenty of buses to get us around town and especially the areas where the trains do not run.

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Many New Yorkers also use bikes to get around since there are so many bridges and streets with bike accessible lanes!

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Some of us even need to take a ferry to get to into the city!

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So tell me, how do you get around your hometown!

P.S. If you’re able to, don’t forget to contribute content (e.g photos/reviews/check the facts) to any of the transportation methods you share. More points for you!

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I love this post @BruceDM :). If I am not driving, I get around town with a bus, we have BRT buses in my city, which is the fastest means of transportation going to work or anywhere if there are no traffics at all on the roads in my city. The brt buses have a dedicated lane that motorist can’t ply except the BRT buses. I will love to show you how a BRT bus looks like in my city, so I would be sharing one sooner also, so you can see as well. I also don’t forget to check facts as well and also describing it’s features like accessibility as well, and add a photo so also writing a review to give a lot of people a helping information as well. Thanks for sharing :slight_smile:

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Driving my car, always driving!

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Around my town having no public transportation I drive everywhere I go. There are very few taxi services, but very few. There are also private transportation companies which mainly deal with disabled to get them around to doctor visits etc…

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Love this topic because true enough, modes of transport used by locals is almost always the first thing I research about whenever I visit somewhere I’ve never been.

Unlike New York, Singapore is tiny! Most places are accessible by MRT (Mass Rapid Transit), buses, cars or even foot. Just the other day, a friend and I walked from somewhere North East of Singapore to the central region!

People do use bicycles to get around, but mostly short distances only to another place nearby. Bike sharing services (like Mobike, oBike, Ofo) became available in Singapore recently, so yes, we are seeing more people are commuting via these bikes! @IlankovanT visited some time ago and tried one of these bike services. :slight_smile:

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I’d love to hear how folks in Italy get around as I’ve always thought about it being via motorcycles and small cars, from what I’ve seen here on Connect and on TV. Is that true, @LucioV ?

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@TraciC wrote:

I’d love to hear how folks in Italy get around as I’ve always thought about it being via motorcycles and small cars, from what I’ve seen here on Connect and on TV. Is that true, @LucioV ?

Nice question @TraciC and great thread @BruceDM !

In effect everything changes from big cities (actually Rome, Milan, Naples and, maybe, Turin and Florence).

Some cities have performing public transportation (Milan, Turin), or are so little you can walk across the center in half an hour (Florence).

Then we have Rome and Naples, and this is a whole different story; i will write about Rome, and @DanielaBP will write about Naples (although she is an anomalous citizen, without driving license!!!).

In Rome, 99% of locals use their own vehicles.

This is a shame, but we have a public transportation system that is a complete failure; only two and half subway lines, and ground vehicles that are always stuck somewhere or they are on fire (literally!).

Many people use motorscooters, that help to get wherever you want in reasonable time.

I bought a car yesterday, after around 9 months i tried to get rid of a private vehicle, but i had to.

I used any kind of shared vehicles; this is a service that is growing up and there is some useful concurrency, we have eCooltra an electric scooter that i love, and i always use when i have to go in the center of Rome.

We have Fiat 500 Enjoy, and Smart Car2Go, we have a little electric car called ShareNGo.

I dream about a city closed to private vehicles, full of Google Cars at the push of a button on your smartphone, no smog, no traffic jams.

I hope to live enough to see this happen!!!

Anyway, i’m lucky enough to live not so far from the center and very close to one of the main green areas of the city, so i can go almost weherever i want by walk :slight_smile:

That’s the way a LG move (fast) in Rome using a 3 wheel scooter (Mp3, from Enjoy, now discontinued): have a look in glorious 360!

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Hi @TraciC !

And hi to my dearest @LucioV , and to everyone else, of course.

Well, @LucioV tells the truth: I haven’t got a driven license, for protecting my self and other Neapolitan citizens (ahahahahahah), but clearly I know something about my city drive habits.

Here in Naples everyone has got a car (small, large, Suv, Smart, old, older, new or newer) but everyone use cars, and it so awful to me, above all because in the last ten years in which our Metro (the Tube) has been so improved that cars can be left for sure in garages!

But another thing that Neapolitan citizens love the most are: Vespa, Scooters and “scooteroni” that are bigger scooters of course, and motorbikes too!

Here in Naples we are crowded by them!

Drive in Naples is - I only suppose this, eh!!! ahahahah!!! - very difficult, even if we are the best drivers in Italy, that only because we don’t love too much to respect all the laws!!! but maybe not all of them are necessary!

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Thank you both, @LucioV and @DanielaBP for sharing this insight into Rome and Naples. I can just imagine it if I close my eyes. :slight_smile:

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Dearest @TraciC hopefully some days you’ll be in Italy with us!! Maybe we can do a girl’s day without my beloved @LucioV #girlsjustwannahavefun

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@LucioV - Awesome video! I imagine that when you live there, it must be easy to get used to the beauty of scooting around the city but something like this would absolutely be a highlight of my trip if I was in Italy!

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Thanks @BruceDM when you will visit Rome i will be honoured to be your scooter Local Guide! :slight_smile:

Anyway, sometimes, usually in summer, Local Guides use bycicles:

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Interesting topic @BruceDM .

As I am living in Kuala Lumpur so I will write about my city.

In Kuala Lumpur 85% of the local peoples have their own cars.

99.9% of peoples having motorcycle(100 to 150cc petrol engine).

60% using cars or motorcycle for travelling around town and 40%using public transport system.

We have a well managed, punctual public transport system.

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We have a LRT (light rail transit)MRT(mass rail transit)MONORAIL(above ground)KTM(komuter transit Malaysia)on the ground .RAPID KL Buses to every corner of the city. Each and every line is connected through interchange stations.you can see interchange stations in photo above.

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All the public transport is affordable and time saving. In city centre we have multiple free bus services with free WiFi and WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. GOKL PINK LINE BUS SERVICE ,PURPLE LINE AND GREEN LINE FREE BUS SERVICE .

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Thanks. …

Akmal

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This is a great post. Thanks for creating the thread @BruceDM When considering my hometown Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, there are several transportation modes to reach from longer distances as buses, trains, cabs and sea plane.

The most exciting experience I have ever has was my journey on a sea plane. Also there are lots of people traveling to Batticaloa by Intercity buses. People in the town are using bicycles, motorbikes and three wheelers to reach short distances with in the town and to rural areas. However, my all time favorite journey was on the seaplane. Traveling around the green and blue zones of a tropical country like Sri Lanka with a bird view is really exciting.

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@AkmalB , @IlankovanT - Love the photos and the video! I always find that the subway maps in other cities tend to have a very similar look to them and they are certainly easy to follow. The New York City subway map is so expansive and confusing in comparison! I’ve lived here all my life but I still need a few minutes to figure something out when i’m going to a new place :slight_smile:

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Orlando is a large city, but not as huge as N.Y.C. We have a speed rail train system here, bus routes stretching three counties, and many Uber drivers and cab companies as well.

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@Smiles - I hope to visit Orlando one of these days. The kid in me has always wanted to visit Universal Studios :slight_smile:

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Universal Studios is fantastic. It has so many wonderful things to see and experience. Talk about roller coasters??? Then there are the restaurants, O.M.G. Harry Potter’s World is just one example of the things to do there. Come to visit soon.

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It sounds really amazing! I definitely will add it to the bucket list :slight_smile: