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WonderlandPark
Jan 24, 2007, 10:17 PM
it has been a slow couple of days at work, and I was inspired to do this by a list that Tri-Met (portland, or) had up of all the systems that the employees had ridden. I am trying to remember to use the right name for the systems, but I know I don't have them all.

So, in a complete fit of boredom, is my list:

System (City) Mode I have ridden

Balboa Island Ferry (OC) ferry
BART (Bay Area) rail
Cathlamet Ferry (Columbia R.) ferry
CTA (Chicago) rail, bus
CENTRO (Syracuse) bus
Coaster (San Diego) cr
DART (Dallas) lrt
Golden Gate Ferry (Bay Area) ferry
Las Vegas Monorail
Las Vegas (Luxor-Excalibur) tram-ish
MARC (DC area) commuter rail
MARTA (Atlanta) rail
MBTA (Boston) rail, lrt, bus
Metro (L.A.) bus, rail, lrt
Metro (Washington D.C) rail
Metro (Seattle) bus
Metrorail (Miami) rail
Metro Transit (Minneapolis) bus
MTA (New York) rail, bus, airtrain
commuter rail: Metro-North, LIRR
MTS (San Diego) lrt
MUNI (San Francisco) bus, lrt
NJ Transit (New Jersey) cr
PATH (New Jersey) rail
SCAT (Ventura Co.) bus
Seattle Monorail
SEPTA (Philadelphia) cr
SLO Transit (San Luis Obispo) bus
TCAT (Ithaca) bus
Tri-Met (Portland) MAX, lrt, bus, tram
UTA, TRAX (Salt Lake) lrt
VTA (San Jose) lrt
Washington State Ferries
Wheatland Ferry (Willamette R.)



CANADA
Black Ball Ferry (Victoria) ferry
C-Train (Calgary) lrt
Skytrain (Vancouver) lrt
STM Metro (Montreal) rail on wheels
TTC (Toronto) tram

ASIA
Tokyo Metro, rail
+ some private rail that I can't recall
names of
Osaka Subway & Urban Rail
Kitakyushu Ferry & Hovercraft
Hiroshima, bus
Kumamoto, bus

MTR (Hong Kong)

Star & Putra LRT, Monorail (Kuala Lumpur)
KTM (Kuala Lumpur) cr
KLIA ekspres (KL) cr
Kuala Lumpur, private bus lines
Penang Ferry
BTS Skytrain (Bangkok)

EUROPE

RER (Paris) rail
RATP (Paris) rail
SNCF (Paris) cr
London Underground, rail
London Bus
London Docklands LRT
Heathrow Express cr
TMB (Barcelona) rail
Metro Roma, rail
Circumvesuviana (Naples) cr
SNCF (Carcassonne) cr
Zagreb, tram
Istanbul, ferry, tram/lrt, bus

miketoronto
Jan 25, 2007, 12:03 AM
I have not rode many systems, but here is what I have been on.


STCUM bus and metro, Montreal, Quebec
STO bus, Hull, Quebec
OC TRANSPO bus, Ottawa
TRANSIT WINDSOR bus, Windsor
DDOT bus, Detroit :)
SMART bus, Detroit
RTA bus and streetcar, Cleveland
NFTA bus and Metrorail, Buffalo
CENTRO bus, Syracuse, New York
MTA bus, New York City
MBTA trolley and subway, Boston
PAT light rail, Pittsburgh
London Transit Commission bus, London, Ontario
Hamilton Street Railway bus, Hamilton
CTA bus and subway, Chicago

Sadly I was in Milwaukee and did not get to ride their transit system.

The Chemist
Jan 25, 2007, 2:11 AM
Canada:

Calgary - C-Train
Vancouver - Skytrain

US

Boston - Green Line, Red Line, MBTA Commuter Rail
San Francisco - BART

World

London - Underground, DLR
Dublin - DART, Luas
Shanghai - Metro

Trumbull
Jan 25, 2007, 3:22 AM
Sadly only two:

Washington Metro

Detroit People Mover

foxmtbr
Jan 25, 2007, 3:27 AM
A bus in Boston in '94.


...


...that's it. :(

Jared
Jan 25, 2007, 3:47 AM
Systems I've ridden on (I'm just listing the cities, even if they have more than one system).

Vancouver
Montreal
Toronto
Seattle (the monorail)
San Diego
London
Paris
Barcelona
Frankfurt
Tokyo
Yokohama
Osaka
Kyoto
Kobe
Nagoya

MSPtoMKE
Jan 25, 2007, 4:45 AM
Edit...

MSPtoMKE
Jan 25, 2007, 4:52 AM
Let's see here...

USA:

Seattle,WA: King County Metro, bus and waterfront streetcar. Seattle Monorail. Washington State Ferries
Portland, OR: Tri-Met Light Rail and streetcar
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: Metro Transit, Bus, Light Rail
Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee County Transit Agency, Bus
Chicago, IL: CTA, Bus, 'L'/Subway. Metra Commuter Rail
New Orleans: Ferry
Detroit, MI: DDot (?) Detroit People Mover
Washington, DC: WMATA, Metro Rail, Bus
Philadelphia, PA: SEPTA, Market-Frankford El
New York, NY (& NJ): MTA Subway, PATH
Boston, MA: MBTA, Commuter Rail, possibly Subway when i was young

Canada:

Toronto, ON: TTC Subway and Streetcar

Europe:

Milan, IT: ATM, Metro, Tram. Ferrovie Nord Milano, Regional Rail. Ferrovie dello Stato, Regional Rail
Rome, IT: Metro
Turin, IT: GTT (?) Bus
Venice, IT: Vaporetto waterbus
Como, IT: Como-Brunate Funicular
Bilbao, ES: Bus, Public elevators (small fare charged)
Madrid, ES: Metro
Barcelona, ES: Metro, Funicular
London, UK: Transport for London, Underground, Bus, Docklands Light Rail
Paris, FR: RATP, Metro. RER Suburban Rail.
Berlin, DE: U-Bahn, S-Bahn
Munich, DE: U-Bahn
Basel, CH: BVD:Tram
Mulhouse, FR: Bus, SNCF Regional Rail
Weil am Rhein, DE: Bus (local city bus that crossed between Switzerland and Germany :))
Zurich, CH: Tram

I think that's all of them.

vizvalleykid
Jan 25, 2007, 6:17 AM
Bay Area: MUNI, BART, CALTRAIN, GG FERRY, VALLEJO TRANSIT, AC TRANSIT

Sydney: Sydney Monorail

Tokyo: Keio, Chuo, JR lines incl. Shinkansen, Narita Express and other trains, Odakyu, and Tokyo Subway, and Tokyo Disneyland Monorail

Coyett
Jan 25, 2007, 6:53 AM
I can't be bothered to list every city in which I have taken a bus, so I've limited the list to urban rail.

New York
Boston
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver

Paris
Lisbon

Taipei
Hong Kong
Seoul
Naha

Riise
Jan 25, 2007, 8:03 AM
Canada

LRT
CTrain - Calgary, AB

Subway
TTC Subway - Toronto, ON

Bus
CT Bus - Calgary, AB
TTC Bus - Toronto, ON


USA

Subway
New York City, NY
Washington, D.C.

Commuter Rail
MTA/LIRR - Long Island/NYC

Monorail
Las Vegas

Bus
Las Vegas


Europe

Subway
Tube - London, UK
Metropolotain - Paris, FR
Met.Ro - Roma, IT
Metro Lisboa - Lisboa, P

Commuter Rail
National Rail - London, UK
Heathrow Express - London, UK
Amsterdam/Leiden, NL

Tram
Zurich, CH

Bus
London Buses - London, UK
Bus (RATP) - Paris, FR
EMT Bus - Madrid, ESP
Connexxion - Leiden, NL

raggedy13
Jan 25, 2007, 9:49 AM
Canada:
Vancouver - Skytrain/Bus/Seabus/water taxi/BC Ferry
Montreal - Metro
Halifax - Bus

Europe:
Edinburgh - Bus
Scottish Hebrides - Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry
London - Underground
Paris - Metro
Amsterdam - streetcar
Venice - water taxi

Other:
Sydney - Ferry
New York - Subway/Bus

STLgasm
Jan 25, 2007, 1:55 PM
RAIL SYSTEMS:
Boston
NYC
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington, DC
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Miami
Atlanta
Dallas
Denver
LA
San Francisco

MayorOfChicago
Jan 25, 2007, 6:19 PM
Oh golly jee, lets see....

I'll just list cities

United States:

Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Chicago
Iowa City
New York
Boston
Washington DC

Canada:

Montreal

South America:

Buenos Aires

Europe

Dublin
London
Stockholm
Helsinki
Amsterdam
Paris
Berlin
Munich
Madrid
Barcelona
Venice

crisp444
Jan 25, 2007, 7:26 PM
My list:

Miami - metrorail
Key West - bus
Atlanta - MARTA
DC - metro
NYC - subway, bus, ferry
NJ - NJTransit commuter rail and bus
Boston - subway, bus
Seattle - bus, ferry
San Juan Islands (WA) - ferry

Madrid, ES - metro, bus, commuter rail
Barcelona, ES - metro
Rome, IT - metro, bus
Venice, IT - ferry
Naples, IT - metro, bus, commuter rail
Paris, FR - metro, bus
Nice/Monaco/Cannes, FR - train

Buenos Aires, AR - metro
Santiago, CH - metro

Everywhere else I have visited, I went by taxi or drove/was driven by car.

der Reisender
Jan 26, 2007, 2:45 AM
Portland- light rail, streetcar, bus (and soon the tram)
Seattle- bus
LA- Metrorail and subway
Eugene- bus
Denver- light rail
St. Louis- light rail
New York- commuter rail
Boston- subway
Washington- subway
Vancouver- skytrain
Victoria- bus

London- subway
Paris- subway, commuter rail
Amsterdam- subway, streetcar
Madrid- subway
Rome- subway
Florence- bus
Vienna- subway
Krakow- streetcar
Prague- subway
Munich- subway, commuter rail
Berlin- subway, commuter rail
Dortmund- streetcar
Stuttgart- subway, commuter rail, bus
Tubingen- bus
Freiburg- streetcar

Xelebes
Jan 26, 2007, 4:31 AM
Me?

Edmonton Transit
St. Albert Transit




I need to do some traveling.

markdv
Jan 27, 2007, 1:05 AM
I assume mass transit is a bus, light rail, subway, etc...
Not sure of their names si I'll just list the city.
Philly, Pittscburgh, Harrisburg, Baltimore, DC, Charlotte, Miami, State College, Tampa, Orlando, Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, Chicago, Phoenix, San Fran, LA, San Diego, Honolulu, Auckland, NZ, Sydney,Australia, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, London, Edinburgh, Killarney ,Ireland, Paris, Munsich, Frankfurt, Nuremburg, Innsbruck, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Athens, Kusadasi, Turkey, OK City,OK, Richmond,Va, Boston, Providence, NY,NY, Newark,NJ

kool maudit
Jan 27, 2007, 1:45 AM
Halifax Metro Transit
Montreal STCUM
Toronto TTC
Vancouver
London
New York MTA
Boston T
Paris
Amsterdam
Oslo

CJS
Jan 27, 2007, 3:40 AM
Subway:
New York City, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Washington, DC
Baltimore, MD

LRT
Baltimore, MD
St. Louis, MO

BRT
Los Angeles, CA

Commuter Rail
New York City, NY
Newark, NJ
Washington, DC
Baltimore, MD
Los Angeles, CA

Ferry
New York City, NY

staff
Jan 27, 2007, 8:16 AM
Way to many to list...

Derek
Jan 27, 2007, 9:32 AM
cities ive used mass transit in:

San Diego
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Las Vegas
Miami
New York
Washington, D.C.
Chicago
Seattle
Orlando
Phoenix

mcbaby
Jan 27, 2007, 12:03 PM
Streetcars
amsterdam
portland
san francisco

Light Rail
los angeles
portland (MAX)
san diego
san francisco (MUNI)
san jose

Trolley
astoria
portland
san francisco
seattle

BRT
eugene

Trolley Bus
san francisco
seattle

Subway
new york/new jersey (PATH)
san francisco/oakland (BART)
paris (METRO)
los angeles

Tram
portland

Ferries
san francisco
seattle
victoria

Monorail
detroit
las vegas
newark
seattle

Skytrain
vancouver

HSR
paris/brussels/amsterdam

PhillyRising
Jan 27, 2007, 2:44 PM
Philadelphia - Train, Subway, Bus
Pittsburgh - Subway, Bus
Washington - Metro
Ocean City, MD - Bus
St. Louis - Bus

M II A II R II K
Jan 27, 2007, 3:56 PM
London

Toronto

New York

Montreal

San Diego

Liverpool

seaskyfan
Jan 27, 2007, 8:53 PM
Boston - Bus, Subway, Light Rail, Commuter Rail, Water Taxi
Seattle - Bus, Monorail, Washington State Ferries
Montreal - Subway
London - Subway, Commuter Rail, Bus
Vancouver - Subway/Elevated (SkyTrain), Bus
Portland - Light Rail, Bus
Philadelphia - Subway/Elevated, Commuter Rail, Trolleys, High Speed Trolley (Norristown Line - still very cool!)
New York - Commuter Rail, Subway, Bus
Washington, DC - Commuter Rail, Subway
Las Vegas - Monorail (not the big one - the one that connects some of the casinos)
Northampton/Amherst, MA - Bus
Cape Cod, MA - Rail (not operational any more)
San Francisco - Bus, Light Rail
LA - Bus
Chicago - Subway

tayser
Jan 27, 2007, 10:48 PM
Melbourne - Train, Tram, Bus
Sydney - Train, Tram, Bus, Ferry
Adelaide - Tram, Bus

Edinburgh - Bus
Glasgow - Bus
London - Tube, Bus, DLR
Manchester - Tram
Newcastle - Metro

Munich - S-Bahn
Berlin - S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Bus
Amsterdam - Train
Paris - Metro, RER, Bus

__________

Singapore & Hong Kong in March.

alps
Jan 29, 2007, 4:29 AM
Metro Transit (Halifax) - Bus, ferry
TTC & Go Transit (Toronto) - Subway, bus, streetcar (also went on a ferry in Toronto, but I don't know if it was privately owned or not)
Matanzas, Cuba - Bus
New York City - Subway

volguus zildrohar
Jan 29, 2007, 5:27 AM
Philadelphia/SEPTA & PATCO: Subway/El, Streetcar, Subway-Surface Trolley, Suburban light rail, inter-urban light rail, commuter rail, commuter subway, bus, trackless trolley
New York/MTA & PATH: Subway (in tunnel, embankment, elevated and open-cut), bus, PATH, commuter rail (LIRR/MNRR)
New Jersey Transit: Commuter rail (electric, diesel), diesel light rail
Chicago/CTA: Subway/L
Boston/MBTA: Subway/light rail
Washington, D.C./METRO: Subway
Baltimore/MTA: Subway
Cleveland/RTA: Subway/heavy rail
Detroit: People mover
Atlanta/MARTA: Subway
Pittsburgh/PAT: Light Rail
Columbus: Bus

I think that's it.

Wild Onion Mike
Jan 29, 2007, 7:12 AM
DisneyWorld - Monorail;)
Paris - Metro, RFD
Positano, Italy - Giogio Flavio, Bus route along the Amalfi Coastal towns
Northern Indiana- South Shore Railroad (oldest continuosly operating interegional rail in USA)
Chicago - CTA, Metra, Pace
New York City - Subway
Washington D.C. - Metro Subway
Philadelphia - Septa
Boston - the "T" subway
San Francisco - Trolley System
Seattle - Monorail, Ferry System

WesTheAngelino
Jan 29, 2007, 8:27 AM
Sadly, someone as into mass transit as me has ridden few systems. I didn't even ride the NYC subway when I was there!

Jackson, MS: JATRAN bus
Bay Area: BART
L.A.: MTA bus and rail
New Orleans: St. Charles and Canal Trolleys
Memphis: Trolley
Houston: bus and metro rail
D.C.: Metro Rail
Orlando: Disney Monorail ~_^

Cirrus
Jan 29, 2007, 2:34 PM
Metro:
Washington
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Montreal
Orlando (does the Disney monorail count?)

Light rail:
Boston
Denver
Fort Collins
Baltimore
Pittsburgh (been in the subway, but not on a train)

Traditional Rail
Amtrak
Washington MARC
Washington VRE
Philadelphia SEPTA
Chicago South Shore (been on a platform, but not on a train)

Bus
Greyhound (private)
Washington WMATA MetroBus
Washington DC Circulator
Washington Arlington ART
Washington Alexandria DASH
Washington Montgomery County Ride-On
Washington Fairfax CUE
Washington Georgetown Blue Bus (private)
University of Maryland Shuttle
Ocean City Bus
Denver RTD / Boulder Go
University of Colorado BuffBus

Airport Movers
Denver Subway
Washington-Dulles Mobile Lounges

JACKinBeantown
Jan 29, 2007, 8:10 PM
Amtrak
Eurail
Greyhound
Fung Wah bus
Peter Pan / Trailways
New Jersey Transit train
New York - MTA subway, bus, JFK Airtrain, Newark Airtrain, LIRR, Metro North
Jersey City - PATH train
Washington DC - subway
Boston - subway, light rail, bus
San Francisco - Trolley car
Chicago - bus
Paris - Metro subway
London - underground subway
Hamburg - subway
Amsterdam - subway
Berlin - bus
Las Vegas - monorail
Torino - metro bus

Building@HK
Jan 30, 2007, 3:06 AM
New York -- subway, bus, LIRR
Ithaca -- bus
Boston -- subway
SF Bay Area -- caltrain, cable car

I've visited other cities in the states, but mostly in a rental car so didn't get to ride on their transit systems.

If you count the Disney monorail, would you count the National Park buses?:shrug:

Hong Kong -- MTR, KCR, bus, tram, ferry, everything
Shenzhen -- metro
Shanghai -- metro, bus, the little 1-car carriage that links Pudong and Puxi through a tunnel below Huangpo River
Tokyo -- JR, metro, various private railways
Osaka -- JR, Shinkansen, metro
Kyoto -- JR, Shinkansen, bus
Fukuoka -- JR, Shinkansen, metro, bus
Taipei -- metro
Bangkok -- BTS skytrain, bus
Singapore -- MRT
Kuala Lumpur -- LRT, airport line
Paris -- metro, TGV
Brussels, Cologne, Frankfort -- some overnight train where I saw a whole trainful (another train) of drunk Germans. Also a train that runs along the Rhine.
Moscow -- metro, bus, train
Brisbane -- airport rail
Cairns -- bus, skyrail, kuranda rail

solongfullerton
Jan 30, 2007, 3:34 AM
LA - subway and bus
SF - BART and bus
SD - Trolley
NYC - subway, airtrain, and the heavy rail between Newark and the airport
London - tube and double decker bus
Paris - subway and RER
Berlin - subway
Munich - subway
Prague - subway
Vienna - subway
Interlaken - funicular
Barcelona - subway
Rome - subway
Florence - bus
Beijing - subway
Shanghai - subway

Buckeye Native 001
Jan 30, 2007, 5:41 AM
Los Angeles: Metrolink, MTA
San Francisco: BART, Muni
Portland: Tri-Met/MAX
Washington DC: Metro
Chicago: CTA
Cincinnati: Subway
Anaheim: Disneyland Monorail
SSP: This thing: :banaride:

big W
Jan 30, 2007, 9:05 PM
I will only list cities I have been too as I do not know the systems names etc

Canada

Edmonton
Calgary
Vancouver
Toronto
Montreal
Quebec City
Halifax

United States

Seattle
San Fransisco
San Diego
Chicago
New York
Boston
Washington

Europe

London
Paris
Munich
Amsterdam
Vienna
Frankfurt
Prague
Copenhaggen
Malmo

Asia

Tokyo
Osaka
Kyoto
Bangkok
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore

SHiRO
Jan 31, 2007, 11:22 AM
Now who has that link to that guy's page where you can mark all the systems and it shows the logos? (surprised noone posted it yet...) :D

EDIT - Found it!

http://metro.b3co.com/

JMGarcia
Jan 31, 2007, 1:16 PM
Oh dear, here goes...

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Miami
New Orleans
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco/San Jose
San Diego
Portland
Seattle
Vancouver
Toronto
Montreal
Mexico City

Rio de Janiero
Buenos Aires
Santiago

London
Paris
Brussels
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Munich
Berlin
Vienna
Barcelona
Madrid
Rome
Zurich
Vienna
Budapest
Prague
Athens
Moscow
Kiev
St. Petersburg
Helsinki
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Oslo

Tokyo
Kyoto
Beijing
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Taipei (just yesterday in fact)
Bangkok
Singapore
Kuala Lumpur

Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane

Xing
Jan 31, 2007, 2:23 PM
Not a whole lot, just yet.

Chihuahua Chihuahua Mexico - Bus
Namiquipa Chihuahua Mexico - Bus
Puerta Vallarta Jalisco Mexico- Bus
Chicago - Metra, El, Bus CTA
St. Louis - Bus, Metrolink - METRO
Washington D.C. - Metro
Disney World - Monorail
Madrid Spain - Subway
Comayagua Honduras - Bus

plinko
Jan 31, 2007, 5:28 PM
Santa Barbara (bus)
LA (bus, subway, lite rail, Metrolink)
San Diego (lite rail)
Sacramento (lite rail)
San Francisco (BART, Muni bus and rail)
Seattle (monorail)
Phoenix (bus)
Chicago (the el)
Minneapolis (bus)
Detroit (People Mover)
Tulsa (bus)
DC (subway)
Baltmore (lite rail)
Philadelphia (subway)
NYC (subway, bus)
NJ (lite rail, PATH, commuter rail)
Boston (the T, bus)

Berlin (subway, lite rail, bus)
Copenhagen (subway)
Paris (subway, RER)

Caracas (subway)
Panama City (Diablo Rojo!)

Tokyo (NRT Express, subway)
Singapore (lite rail, bus)
Kuala Lumpur (lite rail, KL Express)
Hong Kong (bus, subway, lite rail, KRC)
Guangzhou (subway)
Beijing (subway, bus)
Shanghai (subway, Maglev)

and I've ridden ACELA from Philly to Baltimore, the MARC from Baltimore to DC, and Amtrak from Ann Arbor to Phoenix (3X each way)