Kazakhstan (17/mi^2) has a lower population density than all but 5 US states (SD, ND, MT, WY, AK), and a much lower density than the USA as a whole (85/mi^2), but supports a national rail system with 21 million trips per year: https://twitter.com/380kmh/status/1031931654116397058 …https://twitter.com/tonybalogna/status/1052596900795437057 …
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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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