If only the EU understood just how sparse the US is geographically compared to the EU they may understand why cars are such a necessity.
Even in a lot of big us cities, most people don’t live in the city. I live in a metro area with 2 million but only 300k in the city. That’s 1.7 million with no public transit. Also all of the people farther out that aren’t vin the metro area, no public transit. A very small percentage of people in the US have non-car options, and even where it exists it is generally terrible.
Lmao. No the US like to kill all competition and forcing you to take your car 30 minutes to go to walmart. It’s often illegal in a lot of places to have a shop on the ground floor of a residential building. This is by design.
American suburbs are cancer. See also “the missing middle”.
The problem is not that the US is sparse, is that cities are. You are probably misunderstanding the problem, and if not, you are not explaining correctly. Check out The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities from Not Just Bikes for a breakdown of the issue.
No one is blaming you individually, or even the US citizens individually. The problems are multiple for sure, but you won’t start to fix it unless you understand the issue properly. Maybe it’s not your case, but many US citizens are surely not seeing the point at all.
The EU is huge and covered by high speed rail. China is huge and covered by high speed rail.
The US has endless examples of 200 mile runs that would serve 5-10mil people and we have no high speed trains. The LA to Vegas air route is one of the heavist traveled in the world, and only after Biden’s infastructure act are we just now going to get middling high speed line, and not for years. A DFW to Houston line would serve 10mil people and only be 240 miles. Nothing. Seattle to Portland is less than 200miles and would serve 6 mil. Nada.
It’s not geography, its politics. That’s it.