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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s public transport in large and dense cities. It doesn’t work to move around the country very well. These people that think something that works in a country that’s smaller than an individual state in the US should work fine are “special”.

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negativeyoda@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
… but this is Detroit which is a city that can support NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL teams. We’re not taking about the sticks here

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isles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Japan is the size of the entire east coast and has high speed interconnected rail.

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- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There’s only about 800 cities to connect in all of Japan.
  
  There’s about 19,000 in the US.
  
  You prove my point. Japan is small and easy to get everywhere by rail. The US is not.
  
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  - LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, area wise Japan is about 60% the size of Texas. With Japan having more than twice the GDP. Seems pretty straight forward why infrastructure should be better there. Japan has 4x the populous as well. Makes a lot more motivation to focus on public transport.
    
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