4 ms·
This should visually help put how vehicle dependent the US is in context a bit. That's just Texas overlayed on France. https://www.texasmonthly.com/wp-content/
by arca_vorago 9y ago
This should visually help put how vehicle dependent the US is in context a bit. That's just Texas overlayed on France.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france.png https://www.texasmonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/fran...
- TomMarius 9y agoI'm not sure what is this supposed to mean. Yeah the US are huge and sparsely populated. The EU has almost 200 million bigger population.
- arca_vorago 9y ago>Yeah the US are huge and sparsely populated. Mostly you just answered the question. The primary factor is that the US just simply doesn't have the same public transportation infrastructure the EU has, not even close. I could travel just about anywhere in the EU without ever getting in a car... that's impossible in the US.
- TomMarius 9y agoIt's easier to build a train network in a sparsely populated space.
- arca_vorago 9y agoWe are't talking about hypotheticals, we are talking about what is current, now. You are moving the goal posts...