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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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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New Haven - NYC has about the same service frequency as Okutama - Tokyo, only Okutama is a village of 5000.
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The very best that American transit has to offer is a veritable dumpster fire of excessive headways, unreliable service, and short operating hours.
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And feel safe having a state allow open carry with a tight border
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