Where did public transportation start?
The first public transport was probably the ferry, invented when some enterprising individual decided he could make money getting people across rivers. We can see how old this is by the ancient Greek practice of burying the dead with a coin in their mouth to pay the ferryman across the river Styx. Otherwise, people travelled on foot or rode animals. By the 16th century, however, some coaches were being used to transport the general public.The omnibus, the first organized public transit system within a city, appears to have originated in Nantes, France, in 1826.
