Multimodal transportation

The Swedes, though they have traffic problems like everyone else (implying that they love their cars maybe a wee bit too well), aren't afraid of lots of different ways of getting around. From a certain vantage overlooking the central train station in Stockholm, you can see as many as six modes of transportation in one place: (1) cars, (2) trains/ trams, (3) buses, (4) bicycles, (5) boats, and (6) feet. I tried to my best to get them all in one photograph, but wasn't entirely successful.

Buses and trains and cars--oh, my!

I'm of course standing on a sidewalk; there's an actively used (even in January!) bikepath behind me; and there's a boat (which seems in fact to be a bar of some kind) slightly to the right of the photograph frame. American cities could learn a thing or two from this kind of openness to options. Who would have thought that the most successful tyrants in American history would be neither fascists nor communists, but rather industrialists.