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MightBeOverSoon posted...

https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/survey-ranks-prague-s-public-transport-as-the-second-best-in-the-world#

Did you even try to look yourself? It's rated extremely highly.

So is stockholm, which i visited a few years ago, which sucked even more

"A study that encompassed over 50 cities asked locals one question: Is it easy to get around your city by public transport? Remarkably, 96 percent of people in Czechias capital agreed."

Key point. When you ask locals if it's easy to get around by public transportation, they answer according to how easily they can get to work, run errands, and otherwise live their everyday lives by using transit instead of driving. They do not answer according to how easily a tourist who's used to being dropped at the front door by her driver can get to a museum or restaurant. Given that locals being able to live their lives efficiently generally matters a lot more than the occasional tourist being slightly inconvenienced, that metric is going to be more worth paying attention to in making city design choices.

It's also worth noting that having good public transit does not necessarily correspond with being designed well around accessibility. Moving away from car-centric design is generally better for accessibility, but there are still accessibility-specific considerations needed on top of that to make cities better for those with disabilities. I could easily believe that Prague has good public transit but has dropped the ball on accessibility-focused building codes and other aspects of making life easier for disabled people.