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> But repealing the second amendment now won’t make things better. We made drugs illegal, how’s that going? People aren't (physically) addicted to guns. If onl

> But repealing the second amendment now won’t make things better. We made drugs illegal, how’s that going? People aren't (physically) addicted to guns. If only there were data from other countries... > I think you’re also getting confused between population and population density. The US has a population density of 1/12th the Netherlands. Few people are demanding public transport spanning entire sparsely populated states. There are enough cities in the US with comparable population densities to e.g. Amsterdam.

mattmaroon 3y ago
There are not actually, and the ones there are (except Miami) are the ones I was counting as having good public transport. (And I’ve spent a lot of time in SF, I’m being generous counting them as good.) There are only 4 large cities in America that dense. They add up to about ten million residents, or about 3% of our population. There’s one mid sized city (Jersey city) and 4 small cities. Not even 5% of our population lives in somewhere as dense as Amsterdam. These arguments come up here all the time because HN has a bike-friendly car hating crowd, but the actual numbers all support that the decision to have public transport vs car culture all stems from population density. Populations all over the world make similar decisions with similar inputs, they just have different inputs.