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> most of the country I invite you to visit N. Montana or either of the Dakotas, or that stretch of highway in Nebraska that seems to go in a straight line for

• bullfightonmars 3y ago
  Why is the Montana strawman always an example here? Almost no one lives in Montana and no one cares about vehical sizes in Montana, except _maybe_ in Bozeman proper. Let it go, no one is talking about Montana or the Dakotas.
  • all2 3y ago
    I figured the statement "most of the country" applied to most of the country. If we mean "the most population dense parts of the country" I'd gladly concede the point.
    • frumper 3y ago
      Most of the population density of the country doesn't live in dense areas either.
    • bullfightonmars 3y ago
      > most of the country The negative effects of vehicle size and dependence on infrastructure and society are intimately tied to where people live. > Urban areas make up only 3 percent of the entire land area of the country but are home to more than 80 percent of the population. 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....
• nimbleplum40 3y ago
  The issue isn’t with people owning big vehicles in rural area… it’s that we’ve built out _urban_ environments for cars instead of for people.
• thesuitonym 3y ago
  I live in the Dakotas, specifically in a town that was, get this, founded as a railway town. The towns and cities here are actually smaller than in other parts of the country because we have more of our prewar infrastructure.