re: #227 goddamnedfrank
Somewhat relevant context: Japan’s average population density is also 3.7 times higher than the US and public transit is orders of magnitude more useful and therefore popular.
Yes… but the “US” includes vast open spaces in TX, MT, AK, etc.
While Japanese cities are more dense than cities in the US (outside of Manhattan), the major population centers in the US are not that much less dense than Japan outside of Tokyo and Osaka.