a little about the public transportation part of the equation...
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...transportation
Boston and Portland are on the list for the top 10.
And I will say Atlanta now has the previous Bus Maintenance Director from Portland - and he's one hell of a sharp cookie when it comes to running a maintenance fleet - so unless they've gone to pot since he left - they should have a good reliable bus fleet. And they don't have any CNG buses - which means they have better reliability than a CNG or CNG / Diesel mix fleet. (bus cng engines are notorious for having reliability issues)