During our stay in Malaga, I have become greatly appreciative of the facility with which we travel. Here, we can take a train to Madrid or even outside the country, a bus to class or a nearby city, and sometime in the near future people will be able to travel by metro. The benefits of this system are immeasurable: fewer traffic jams, less pollution, fewer people traveling by foot, inreased efficiency, and the list goes on. As we all know, the public transportation system in the United States leaves something to be desired. In fact, I can count on one hand the number of times I´ve traveled by train and bus combined. Though, to be fair, most large US cities do have highly developed systems of public transportation. With that said, however, we still lack modern rail systems between large cities, and furthermore, have developed most medium sized cities in such a way that makes walking anywhere impossible. As you may have guessed, I love the high-speed rail system in Europe and believe that if such a system were developed in the US, the tremendous cost of building it would soon be justified by the benefits.
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