This has always been a bullshit claim. The US HAD good urban rail infrastructure back when we were less dense and had half as many people total. Even if the cl

This has always been a bullshit claim. The US HAD good urban rail infrastructure back when we were less dense and had half as many people total. Even if the claim (you need Europe density) wasn't trivially false, several parts of the US DO meet that level of density and could easily support good public infrastructure. Or do you not know that in the early 1900s nearly every city had copious public transportation that was relied on by literally everyone in the city?