Mumbai is known for its public transportation. A local train every three minutes, a bus stop every half a kilometre, and the availability of so many taxis and autorikshaws round the clock tell the story. The fares are the cheapest in India. Because of these reasons, it has become the best public transportation in India. But is it really the best? Does it really solve a common man's transportation problems? Almost everybody agreed that the buses and trains are overcrowded and their frequency needs to be increased in rush hours. We made a comparative study of different modes of public transportation to understand the difficulties faced by a commuter while travelling to or from a place he has never or less visited before by one or more modes of public transportation. The destinations were selected randomly from the yellow pages directory. The idea was to study the situation where either the destination was or the source was a new place for the volunteers. The volunteers were only given the address of their destination. Apart from that, they were on their own. They had to plan the journey and solve the problems they faced all by themselves. experimenters accompanied them only as passive observers.