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Terrible excuse not to build walkable cities
Such a weak excuse. Why not make the more populous states do the same thing? Oh right I forgot, all your politicians are completely bought by the oil&car lobbies, they DGAF about your safety or wellbeing even a little bit.
How about china
80 million..
First, stop with the 50 countries crap.
Next, the size of your country has zero, literally nothing at all, to do with transportation within an individual city. Get the "america special" shit out of your brain, please.
3.6 million people pass through this single building once a day every day:
The rail lines in the Greater Tokyo Area serve in excess of 40 million people per day.
If US cities really were so big and busy and extreme compared to the rest of the world like you seem to think, they would have a larger need for rail transit, not a lesser one. A rail line has a higher capacity than a highway lane, by at least an order of magnitude.
I am asking you again, please get the "we are so special and big and extreme nowhere else is comparable at all, no one else could even comprehend it" crap out of your head.
Okay, let's compare to China then, which is both double the size of the USA, and has much more inhospitable terrain.
Car ownership is less there too, and pubic transit is very very popular, and cheap.
It's not a size issue. That's an excuse. It's purely a issue of lack of funding and poor planning.
I am in the middle of Kazakhstan right now. If they can manage mass transit despite having fewer people and much more open land, every us city that isn't nyc, DC, and Chicago don't have an excuse.
Germany is one of the largest continental nations mate, it's almost as large as Texas, and larger than the majority of USA states
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It is like that in the entirety of Europe, which is DOUBLE the size of the entire US combined.
Population has nothing to do with it.