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Population Density in the United States vs Europe
I mean I'd love more trains in the US, but let's not oversimplify.
All the more reason we need high speed rail.
Yeah, China might be a better comparison than Europe ironically.
No matter what comparison you pick people will complain that it isn't applicable.
So the eastern half of the USA should at least have more trains than Scandinavia per square km, and the coasts should be like France. Doesn't seem oversimplified at all.
The east coast probably does, and most of the big cities do, it's just that airplane makes a lot more sense when the country is big.
It definitely doesn't lol
So Ohio has the same population density as France. France has the TGV and Ohio has?
Racists, mostly.
Manly men in coal rolling trucks?
Reminder that the US had a much denser rail network in the past.
Imagine how Europe’s population density looked before the railways…
So 200 years ago? I think everywhere was less populous.
Then railways brought about the invention of regional specialty industries, the suburbs, and the commuter.