Re:America’s Buses Need Our Love More Than Ever (2018)
by perl4ever on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:25PM
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"> But this doesn't seem to have any relationship to daily life where I am, or similar places, because train or plane rides are for going on long trips, say over 200km.
Which seems to suggest you live somewhere without a well developed rail system.
I grew up in Norway - a country with a population density of ~14 or so people per square km."
If I Google "Norway" and "subway", I get hits for Oslo. The Oslo metro area is close to two million people.
So I don't see any indication that my view of what's possible is likely wrong.
Patronizingly saying "you don't have a well developed subway system" implies that is something that could be changed if Americans were just sensible like Scandinavians. But is there any magical solution outside the largest population centers, in any country? In another post, Kyoto was mentioned, as though that was a refutation of something.
When I ask how you can have a certain level of infrastructure in an area with a million people, pointing to all the arbitrary boundaries enclosing a million people within a significantly larger population doesn't seem like constructive dialogue to me.
Which seems to suggest you live somewhere without a well developed rail system.
I grew up in Norway - a country with a population density of ~14 or so people per square km."
If I Google "Norway" and "subway", I get hits for Oslo. The Oslo metro area is close to two million people.
So I don't see any indication that my view of what's possible is likely wrong.
Patronizingly saying "you don't have a well developed subway system" implies that is something that could be changed if Americans were just sensible like Scandinavians. But is there any magical solution outside the largest population centers, in any country? In another post, Kyoto was mentioned, as though that was a refutation of something.
When I ask how you can have a certain level of infrastructure in an area with a million people, pointing to all the arbitrary boundaries enclosing a million people within a significantly larger population doesn't seem like constructive dialogue to me.