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Mayor Eric Adams (and others) used to frequently declare that New York has the best transportation system in the world.

New Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn acknowledges that isn't true, but thinks he has political support to improve the city's streets

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Bogotá, famous for terrible traffic.

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Think it was about 8 km from the airport to my hotel when I was there a few years ago. Took over an hour.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Well and everyone in Colombia has two cars so that they can drive on their off days.