It's time to stop making excuses. I'm coming at you with receipts. This is interesting that you say that you can't bike in the winter, Finnish people have no t

It's time to stop making excuses. I'm coming at you with receipts. This is interesting that you say that you can't bike in the winter, Finnish people have no trouble biking in the winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU It also seems odd that it's no problem to plow and salt a gigantic interstate highway system in the USA but somehow it's impossible to clear some small bike lanes. Before you say "only fit people can cycle," Netherlands has microcars that the elderly and disabled can use on bike lanes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ly7JjqEb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ly7JjqEb0 It's weird that you say that installing and operating mass transportation is "completely infeasible" when that's the status quo in Japan. Rail in Japan: (Wikipedia) Ridership: 7.589 billion (2014) Passenger km: 260 billion (2014) System length Total: 30,625 km Electrified: 21,600 km Rail in USA: (Wikipedia) Ridership: 549,631,632 29 million (Amtrak only) (2014) Passenger km: 10.3 billion (2014) How does a country with less than half the population of the USA take 15x the trips and ride 26x the kilometers when their population density is only 10x higher. And, really, if you just talk about major population centers on the coasts and Midwest, the USA doesn't look crazy different than Japan. The Northeast Megalopolis has 3x higher population density than Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis For example, this very rural line with a single rail car has a more frequent timetable than Amtrak's Chicago to Milwaukee train, which connects two large metro areas that are within feasible commuting distance: Video of the line demonstrating how rural it is. Each train only has one car! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIRlmM8wI1g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIRlmM8wI1g Timetable (PDF link) https://www.akita-nairiku.com/timetable/pdf/20220312_02timetable.pdf https://www.akita-nairiku.com/timetable/pdf/20220312_02timet... It's also weird that you say that this can only work in places with high population density, when we know that's not the case. The population of Denmark is similar to Indiana, with Indiana beating Denmark in population density, and the population of Sweden is similar to Ohio, with Ohio having 10x Sweden's population density. Explain then why there's no passenger train from Chicagoland (same size as all of Sweden) to Columbus, Ohio (same size as Copenhagen), a distance of 350 miles (which includes passing through two other sizable cities), but I can get on a high speed train from Copenhagen to Stockholm and cross into a different country covering a driving distance of about 400 miles. We also know density has nothing to do with it because the USA was built almost entirely on rail. There are hundreds if not thousands of railroad town in the USA. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Railroad-Network-in-1850-1860-1870-and-1880-Mapped-Against-1860_fig3_267239718 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Railroad-Network-in-... https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/03/mapped-historic-public-transit-systems-v-their-modern-equivalents https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/03/mapped-histor... > Rural US has chosen the privately owned car as its transportation system. It works well. Does it work well? Car crashes are the #2 accidental killer behind guns (used to be #1). The USA's traffic death rate per 100,000 people is 6x higher than Sweden and 3x higher than Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...