Another thought about relatively small things that improve quality of life. I used to find navigating a strange city by bus impossible to extremely stressful. This applied almost as much to unfamiliar parts of the city I lived in. This problem has now been solved in Toronto. The TTC website includes a "trip planner" that allows one to input starting and finishing location and which then calculates the optimal route. Bus routes now have names for all the stops and audio/visual messaging on the buses (and streetcars) announcing the next stop. Travel by bus is now not essentially different from rail/subway.