public transit system.... not transportation system
I know!! I just wanted to point out randomly that in Vietnam, you mess up driving, you die lol.
My friend said that people don't care about people jaywalking the road, and if you get hit, that's too bad. That website had some nice info about how's it like too.
- Sun. Your blisters will have blisters.
- Traffic. It's like one of those space invader video games only when you lose, you die.
- The roads (particularly in rural areas) are about as smooth as a newly plowed field.
- To a Vietnamese truck driver, there is no such thing as the wrong side of the road.
- There are no ambulances in Vietnam.
- Nineteen miles in eight hours is good progress...
- In the city the exhaust fumes can be dense enough to cut with a karate-chop.
- If you have no choice but to run over an animal (chicken, dog, even a pig) hit it straight on and try to get over it. Better them than you. There are no ambulances in Vietnam.
- People often leave unhusked sheaves of rice lying across the road so that trucks and buses will separate the rice from the husks. Drive right over them. They also leave sheets of corrugated metal to be flattened by successive vehicles. You want to be a little more careful of those.
Aside from Vietnam, I would say Taiwan, Korea, Japan -- these three places have an excellent transit system, you can get from point A to B without a need for a personal vehicle easily, reliably, and on time.