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New york city has the public transportation and population density of Japan. If Texas made its choice by being the size of Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic,

• hrydgard 10y ago
  You can choose to build practical denser cities even in huge states. There'll just be more space between them.
  • h3st 10y ago
    Which means more wilderness & biodiversity, or more farmland, depending on the area. In Oslo you can ride the subway to the edge of the forest & hiking trails. Some people want to replace the hiking trails with suburbs and detached housing. They're not popular people.
• CydeWeys 10y ago
  New York City is actually not a good location for a modern, dense city. The preponderance of rivers is problematic, and makes transit a lot more expensive than it would otherwise be (just look at the cost of new rivers and bridges). Manhattan, Staten Island, and Brooklyn and Queens (on Long Island) are all islands. Houston and Dallas have much more amenable geography for becoming denser, larger cities with better mass transit. Yet they haven't, because they chose not to. And there's plenty of unused space in New York state, anyway. It's big and only moderately populated north of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Compare New York with Texas: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/New_York_Population_Map.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/New_York... https://i.redditmedia.com/cn1OstwGd24Katakx1DFdC8cVzAjUVyOFhld5up3iwA.jpg?w=600&s=b567ca1261fa946c5c81fa9187dc70e5 https://i.redditmedia.com/cn1OstwGd24Katakx1DFdC8cVzAjUVyOFh...