Originally Posted by
j44ke
Good luck. Europe is different than the US. European countries can make national decisions to incorporate country-wide mass transit efforts and integrate urban systems into regional connectors etc. Hell, you guys can even stitch together super-fast rail lines that make breakfast in London and lunch in Brussels possible. Here is the US, we can't even run a fcking railroad that should make NYC to Washington DC a cakewalk. Federal versus state, local versus national, taxes versus no taxes, petro-dollars/car industry versus conservation, sharing versus fck you, and beneath it all a history of racism and inner city impoverishment and suburban fear and etc. etc. etc.
But yeah, in an ideal world, urban areas should substantially reduce the number of private cars on the street.