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Old Posted Dec 9, 2019, 2:16 PM
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Originally Posted by muppet View Post
I loathe London -

...how badly run and ransomed the transport system (and pretty much everything) has become by big business...

...how subconscious bias is endemic...

...how one problem on the line takes out the entire network...
And yet to Americans, London has a transit system that is light years ahead of anything on this continent, and my husband noted on our first visit there that London was the first place he had ever been where he did not feel -- and was not relentlessly reminded -- that he was black, and lesser, other, and an outsider.

I'm not knocking your perspective since you live there and know it better than I ever could, but I find the different perspectives fascinating.
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