HATE: City Transportation

I live in St. Paul a town of roughly 300,000 but with Minneapolis and the surrounding communities you get up over a million. And the public transportation sucks. I live somewhere between 7-12 miles from school. Yet there is no way for me to get to school unless I drive. It is pathetic. Seriously I have two buses that are right near where I live, but the lines go nowhere. I would have to make 3 changes just to get to school. Hell I can't even walk anywhere really because there is a massive hill that I live on, now I am lazy but I wouldn't mind walking up a hill....if THERE WERE FRIGGIN SIDEWALKS. Seriously how can there not be sidewalks on two fairly major roads???

So everyone is waiting for me to compare US cities to European cities, like Paris. Well I won't. Europe is different the cities are closer, more compact. It is easier to have subways, trams, and the such to get around. Hell I can walk 6 miles in Paris and go from Montparnasse in the South to la Grande Arche in the Northeast and feel like nothing. Here I walk 6 miles and I feel like I get nowhere.

Now St. Paul does have a "light rail" basically a subway just above ground. It is great for me, I have to drive to it, but it take me into Minneapolis (I hate driving in Minneapolis). Other than that though, the light rail goes nowhere. It is worthless for most. I love that once the decide to put in public transportation like the light rail, it goes nowhere much like the buses near me.

I hate driving 8 miles or whatever to get to school for no real reason, why the hell can't we have public transportation? I HATE US public transportation. I am surprised I don't have to fly just to get to school.