Madison > Boston

Here's one reason why Madison is better than Boston: Buses.  Both cities have 'em, but they only really work well in one.....Madison.  In Madison there is a published schedule and......amazing.....they stick to it!  In Boston most of the buses have an "every 10 minutes" type of schedule.  This looks great because there must be frequent buses, but the problem with this is that it basically works on average timing.  So it is not at all uncommon to wait 40 minutes, then 4 buses all come at the same time....so you get an average of a bus every 10 minutes.  This is clearly a problem.

In Madison there are "less" buses, but what they have is a schedule that they stick to.  You can look in the schedule and see that a bus is going to pass your house at 4:15, then go outside at 4:12 and catch the bus.  Today I read the schedule for a bus in Boston that has a real schedule (not a frequency schedule) and waited half an hour after the bus was supposed to show up.

Ah well.  Guess I'm walking for now.