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Nobody is arguing that there needs to be a subway with hourly service between Denver and Boise. There is no excuse for the coasts, south, and midwest not to hav
by hannasanarion 7y ago
Nobody is arguing that there needs to be a subway with hourly service between Denver and Boise. There is no excuse for the coasts, south, and midwest not to have better train service. If you exclude Alaska and the Mountain States, the US has the same population density as Europe.
- jumpingmice 7y agoThis is often overlooked by people with superficial understanding of American geography. Ohio has the same population density as Spain, and a higher per-capita GSP, but none of Ohio’s cities enjoys rail service of any kind.
- WillPostForFood 7y agoSetting aside whether is is reasonable to judge the density of the US by only measuring dense areas, Ohio does have rail service. Amtrak serves Toledo, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. And there is heavy and light commuter rail in Cleveland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTA_Rapid_Transit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTA_Rapid_Transit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ohio_railroads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ohio_railroads You are on to something though, in that Columbus, the largest city in Ohio, and several of the other major cities are not served. The major cities of Columbus, Akron and Dayton do not have Amtrak service. Columbus is the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. without passenger rail service. Columbus last had service with the National Limited in 1979. Dayton (which lost service in 1979) and Akron (which lost service in 2005) are the eleventh and twelfth.[2]