No you don’t understand, utilitarian city planning is stupid. We follow american values like ‘cars’ and ‘redlining’
It’s really funny that a lot of (domestically) well-known American cities wouldn’t even scrape Tier 3 in China lol
In theory, San Francisco. However it is literally inaccessible to anyone except the top .01% and anyone lucky enough to be a homeowner there before prop 13. Every city in the US that is even close to being worth a damn is like this and every day I pray to the great train in the sky that the Bay Area becomes Hong Kong 2.
San Francisco? Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia and Boston would all like a word. Los Angeles and Chicago in particular.
The entire island of oahu has been waiting for decades for the single train system to be built AND ITS STILL BEING DELAYED!
Its been billions of dollars invested.
On a more macro-level, look at the joke that is California’s high speed rail project. It probably won’t even be operational until 2030, and that’s assuming they don’t find yet another excuse to put off the project.
At the risk of being a total , many places in America would be so goated if this country wasn’t so corrupt, incompetent, and proud of it. Imagine sitting in a passenger rail with a book and a nice cup of tea as you’re watching the Cascadian country side pass you, interrupted by a couple villages here and there.
Houston is possibly one of the worst designed and least appealing cities on Earth. There are some moderately ok places, like the museum district is ok. The underground walkway areas downtown are kinda cool too.
Everything else is a complete mess of spaghetti roads, crumbling buildings, and an expectation that driving for 45 minutes on 70 mph highway is a normal commute to work. It’s absurd how much of the money flows directly into some oil company’s off-shore account rather than fixing literally anything.
Houston is like all the worst parts of Los Angeles but without any of the interesting things.
is that houston
Chongqing is only like 25 years old. Before that it was an industry zone in the Sichuan province. Lol
It is actually a crown jewel of china’s growth and focus on livability in their cities.
I didn’t make the meme, I thought Chongqing was a weird choice when there are older or lower tier cities which still make Houston look like absolute shit and are far lesser known. But I’m a simple poster, I see train, I post train
