All of the doors on the public transportation open with the push of a button--except for one old-style train that opens by yanking two handles open--and if you push the button when the train is about to leave then the doors won't open. Bus and tram drivers will sooner watch you run to catch it and leave you before they mess up the timely transportation schedule. The transportation is not 24/7 as things stop running a little bit past midnight, except for when it's the weekend. This is a little bit frustrating when you're coming back from a friend’s house and have to take an Uber home. The trams also stop at every stop even if there are no people at the stop because there's no way of signaling to the driver that you want to get off at the next stop. As I mentioned earlier, the only button that you can press is the one to open the door.
The transportation system is pretty fast and smooth, in the sense that you don't feel the swaying of the train when you're on it. Although, sometimes the drivers slam the brakes really hard and it jerks your body to the side. It seems like most train stops are about a minute's distance because the three stops that I take to school come out to be about a 4-minute ride. They're also much much much cleaner than any form of transportation in New York. You don't see trash, or rats, or crumpled-up bags of chips anywhere. However, sometimes it feels a little bit too clean and serious for me. I'm missing some of the grittiness of New York subways. On that same note, the transportation is really quiet; it seems like Austrians have nailed the art of whispering because you cannot hear anything besides the screeching of the train on the rails. The silence can be a little bit eerie sometimes.
