SUBWAYS & LIGHT RAILS:

This is by far our favorite way for inner city travel. What I like most about it is you don't have to depend on a driver or others to get you in and out. The only thing you have to be careful of is to make sure you have a straight angle when getting onto the train car. If your wheels are sideways, you can get stuck between the train and the platform. 

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It's great because you don't have to worry about getting lock downs or anything like that. As with any big city, you just need to be careful around sketchy people.

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I do have to mention several downfalls though. The sanitation in the elevators to get to the platforms is absolutely disgusting. I usually have to hold my breath before going into the elevator. Truthfully, it's like that in every city I've been to. People use the elevators there like it's the bathroom. I feel like I am going to get the plague every time I go into one. So, for me, that's the biggest issue. 

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The last issue is occasionally there is construction being done on one of the stops that blocks the elevator to the surface. This happened to me several years ago. Three years after 9/11, I got to only spend one day in New York City, and we wanted to take the R train from Times Square to the Twin Tower Memorial to pay our respects. Sadly, when we got to the destination it looked like an older station and there was no elevator access to the surface. I asked a nearby police officer where the elevator was, and he said sadly that this was an older station and the one with the elevator access was destroyed in the attack. My friends went up the stairs to see the memorial while I had to wait in the subway. 

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New York City, I really want to come back and visit you again. If you work at the Visitors Bureau of New York City, I would love to hear from you.