When I left my hometown, public transport was provided by roughly five different bus companies, one ferry company, and one train service. Since then, I believe services have been consolidated so that you can use all or most of these with one metro card. There has been talk for quite a while of a light rail service or expanding the railway - I will be quite pleased if and when this happens. As a consequence of our excellent public transport system, it is extremely common for almost everyone to use it, and pretty common for a lot of older people to never bother to learn to drive.

Since moving, I have been pretty spoiled and have not had to take much public transport, although I usually enjoyed it and would think nothing of a one-way 90 minute bus commute back home. I'm applying for a few jobs though that will entail an hour on the bus to work if I'm successful, which would be a pretty big "lifestyle sacrifice" in the short term.

The most impressive public transport I've seen is probably San Francisco's BART system - seven bucks from the airport to the middle of the city!