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Oh yeah. I forgot that the USA operate by another set of rules than the rest of humanity. What is your point even? Population? Sprawl?
by rfmc 3y ago
Oh yeah. I forgot that the USA operate by another set of rules than the rest of humanity.
What is your point even? Population? Sprawl?
- TylerE 3y agoWell, yes? The Amsterdam metro area is almost 3M people. This is like acting surprised people don’t consider a dog and a cow comparable as pets.
- rfmc 3y agoCopenhagen is 600k. Shitty weather year-round, predicting the next point of pro car dependency arguments.
- TylerE 3y agoWhich is still 3x the city in question. No sale.
- rfmc 3y agoOdense in Denmark, 200k. Good public transportation, never needed a car when visiting it. Roskilde is even smaller 50k and fine to get around walking, biking or by public transportation.
- bhhaskin 3y agoI don't think you have a clue as to how massive the United States really is. Odense has a total area of 30 square miles. Carson City Nevada has a total area of 150 square miles and has a population of 50k. Demark has an area of 16k square miles. Nevada has an area of 110k square miles. So yes. The United States and other large countries do in fact operate off of different rules than small European countries.
- strken 3y agoI'm from Australia, which is close to the size of the continental US but with less than 10% of its population. I know how big and how sparsely populated the US is, and don't really see your point. Yeah, there are big areas of country Australia and the US where you need a car to get to anything. This is a good reason to have access to a car for some of the population. It's not a reason for the towns themselves to be built with carparks everywhere, no footpaths, massive outlets distributed far apart, bad public transport that doubles as crisis housing for the local homeless population, no pedestrian safety and comfort features like roadside trees, lawns instead of gardens, and everything else that makes up sterile urban sprawl.
- cozzyd 3y agomost of Carson City city limits are uninhabited mountain and desert. The parts where people actually live could easily be served by decent transit: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carson+City,+NV/@39.1599664,-119.777568,15599m/ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carson+City,+NV/@39.159966...
- vel0city 3y agoIn that town in question, I imagine the average household lives on at least quarter acre lots if not more, and that's how they want to live. Does that sound similar to Copenhagen? Is it realistic then to expect a Copenhagen transit style to be functional in that town?