Where Public Transit Is Punctual

New York City’s subway has seen better days. It has been declared a state of emergency warranting an $800 million rescue plan to save it from the sordid state it currently is in. City and state officials have neglected the infrastructure for decades, while cutting funding for the better part of 25 years. These structural deficiencies translate into real-time costs for people who rely on the trains to navigate an already congested city.

In New York for every 10 trains that come to the average station about four will be late. These numbers pale in comparison to Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris, and London, where transit service is on-time nearly 100 percent of the time. All cities have invested in infrastructure and new technology in recent years, like driverless trains.