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  • There are many regions of the US denser than areas in europe with good transportation. People try to explain away the US system by pointing out a few low density areas and say “see these 3 big empty areas in the center? All these differences are necessary” but its sort of a outlier situation run amok. Most of the US IS comparable to europe or asia and we’ve once again let ourselves be content with “American Exceptionalism” by another name.

    The reality is just the US developed much of its infrastructure (1940s-1960s) with car companies basically calling the shots during that era and a lot of places in the US still are struggling to overcome 60+ years of laws and budgets more or less written by the car manufacturers themselves after their WW2 high where their competitors overseas all got bombed to hell.