I live in a country where train stations are often surrounded by high-density developments. What most tourists don't notice is that there are massive multi-leve

I live in a country where train stations are often surrounded by high-density developments. What most tourists don't notice is that there are massive multi-level parking lots underneath all that housing and office buildings, not to mention the train station itself. So you can have both high-density development around train stations and car parks for people who need to drive. It's not an XOR situation. The U.S. just tends to be wasteful with its land, because it has so much of it.