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80% of our population lives in 3% of the land area. So no need to move anybody. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rural-america.html#:~:text=Urban
by Zircom 3y ago
80% of our population lives in 3% of the land area. So no need to move anybody.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rural-america.html#:~:text=Urban%20areas%20make%20up%20only,80%20percent%20of%20the%20population https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rural-america....
- cscurmudgeon 3y ago1. 3% of the 4th largest country is still a lot of area, almost the size of many European countries (and those still have a lot of roads for rural transport last time I checked) 2. The other 20% don't matter?
- screye 3y agoThe US still has terrible public transport and densification in cities well suited for it. SF, Atlanta and Seattle grew rapidly in the last few decades. None of them have taken advantage of this demand to build transit or transit suitable housing. Instead, new sprawling suburbs are the only form of infrastructure that gets funded. All while the central arterial roads (101, 280, i5, i90 etc) get more and more crowded. Existing dense cities also have subpar public transit. The NYC metro area falls short of metro areas of Tokyo, Paris or London. Boston, Philly, DC and Miami can't make it to the leaderboard when compared to any peer European city of similar density. Not even going to mention China whose tier 2 cities embarrass tier 1 American cities. > The other 20% don't matter? Only as much as rural areas anywhere in the world. Just because you have to use cars in rural areas, doesn't mean there should be a red carpet highway dropping cars to the middle of Manhattan. These are different worlds. Changing 1 doesn't affect the other.