@herenow
I agree totally with your sentiment.

It's different in parts of Canada though, where parents not only leave children with strangers, but expect the government (read taxpayers) to pay for it.

@ishmael
To answer your question, most places I go in Kunming require a single bus from my door.

I rarely need the Metro at all.
I also don't travel around Kunming with a heavy suitcase in tow and even less frequently require the aid of a cane for a back injury.

For distances other than that my wife drives.

I thought I'd "take one for the team" who live in the north and try the subway route to the airport yesterday.

You should know that I live right next to the starting point of the now defunct 919E bus and a hundred other routes.
The first step of course was to get to Metro line 2.

That required lugging my heavy backpack (computer) and heavier suitcase across the road and up a step onto the bus - not an easy task when walking with a cane for balance.

Getting off the bus an LinYuQiao station was even more difficult since by this time people were blocking the doorway.
Getting a heavy suitcase up on to the conveyor of the xray machine is not easy, and nobody offered to assist.

It seemed a bit pointless since the person supposedly monitoring the screen was actually sleeping!
The transfer from Line 2 to Line 3 at Dongfeng Square was impossible.

There is only one elevator - and it goes UP!

There is no down elevator or escalator to line 3 that I could find, so if it exists it's well hidden.

Transferring to line 6 at the east coach station seemed a bit strange.

From what I could determine the two lines are at the same level, but it was necessary to go up to the main station, then back down on a different elevator.

In the end my time from home to airport was 90 minutes, compared to 65 minutes with the 919 bus that I miss so much.

The subway route could be acceptable for those with time to spare and little to carry, but if you've got heavy baggage - take a taxi.

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China could improve simply by copying Hong Kong instead of trying to force Hong Kong to copy mainland.