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96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 1 week agoYup, Netherlands and public transport is pretty good here. As well as towns, including mine, are walkable/cyclable.
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96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 1 week agoYup, Netherlands and public transport is pretty good here. As well as towns, including mine, are walkable/cyclable.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yeah, I figured. Unfortunately the entire world isn’t as densely populated as Amsterdam, so public transit of that level isn’t always possible. For instance, NL, the entire country, is 1/2 the size of WV the state alone. And the pop of NL is 17,722,333, and the pop of WV is 1,769,979. So to reiterate, your country of 17 million people is smaller in area than one of our states containing 1 million people.
Maybe try leaving your safe little bubble occasionally.
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Sure in some rural places possibilities for public transit are limited. But in the US most people live in cities and they could very well have decent public transit, it’s a political choice to not invest in trains. .
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
You ever been to West Virginia?
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 1 week ago
I’m not saying cars don’t serve a purpose in sparesely populated areas, like West Virginia. They do. But cars are overused in places where public transit would be a thousand times more efficient, like big cities. Also, trains are perfectly suitable to cover large distances. I happen to go on holiday to Italy next week and I do it solely by train. And Europe doesn’t even have good high speed raillines. Perhaps less so than the US, but Europe also neglects public transit in favor of the car lobby.