• Captain Minnette@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    2 years ago

    There’s large swathes of territory nearly as dense as parts of Europe with incredible public transit. Look at the density of Spain and overlay it on top of the northeast US, then compare the public transit.

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      1 year ago

      Yea, but the northeast, especially major cities like NYC, Boston, and Philly, does have better public transit than a lot of the US. I know it still sucks overall (and don’t get me going about the costs), but a lot of the infrastructure was built during the car boom. People do like cars, and they make sense for most of America given how much sprawl we have.

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        1 year ago

        Local transit of those cities is pretty good, I’d agree. But the lack of intercity transit, like high speed rail, is such a shame.