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You're right that car centric transportation is entrenched, but this is the wrong statistic to prove that point. The US is a huge country and the overall densi
by O5vYtytb 2y ago
You're right that car centric transportation is entrenched, but this is the wrong statistic to prove that point. The US is a huge country and the overall density of roads (km/100km2) is lower than Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_network_size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_netw...
- trgn 2y agoman is measure of all things. its density of people is lower too.
- arethuza 2y agoEurope isn't a country though - difficult to do a comparison as a about 40% of Europe is the European part of Russia which has a much lower road density than the US, mind you European Russia is going to be the part that has the highest road density of that country.
- kube-system 2y agoAnd almost 20% of the US is a former part of eastern Russia with really low density. :)
- arethuza 2y agoI wonder if it would make sense to base the comparison on road network density in areas that are above some threshold for population density? i.e. Try and measure how many roads there are in areas where most people actually live?
- kube-system 2y agoOnly if you're trying to intentionally cherry pick the data. Population density inherently affects road networks, and that will be reflected in the data.