The bigger point, though, is that aggregate national population density figures are meaningless for understanding the facts on the ground. NYC has an obviously higher density than Wyoming, even tho they have the same *national* population density.
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Also--and I absolutely cannot stress this enough--American transit is terrible and woefully inadequate *IN PLACES LIKE BOSTON AND NYC* High density isn't magic! You have to actually provide a good service or nobody will want to use it no matter how small their apartment is.
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The tacit assumption here is that transit in places like Boston and NYC is exactly what you would expect of cities of their size and wealth, and that other parts of the country don't have "good" transit like they do simply because they're smaller.
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The transit in those cities isn't good in the first place! They have embarrassingly bad transit *relative to their size,* and this is the case in smaller cities too. Toyama has a transit mode share of just 4%--but Omaha, despite similar population, can't even clear 2%.
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Kazakhstan also has 32 cities with a population over 50,000. South Dakota, for example, has 2. And Kazakhstan’s population density as high an US Northeast in several areas.pic.twitter.com/JzYhSzTGHf
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Also let’s define “extensively”
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i mean kazakhstan is really poor and i doubt most people own their own cars there, this is kind of silly
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It really isnt. It shows that rail transport can be viable even in large areas with low population density. You act like people having cars is good, which it isn't. They pollute, cause traffic jams and are a cancer on any efficient and sustainable transport system.
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forgive me for not having stated the assumption here that a "viable" transportation scheme for America, to be "viable," has to be "viably" implementable through political democracy, without assuming enormous, magical sea changes in americans' lifestyle preferences
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It's either that or massive climate change, so if it comes to it the change should be imposed on the population.
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Kazakhstan also has a car ownership rate less than 1/3 of the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita …
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