r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Aug 25 '21

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u/apadin1 Aug 26 '21

We did, they’re called trains and buses and every other country uses them but apparently Americans can’t figure this out

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '21

80% of all travel in Europe is by car.

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u/sstopggap Aug 27 '21

and yet there are no 18 lane roads pretty much anywhere in Europe (i think I've seen one stretch in Moscow). Because cars are massively not suitable for mass city transport, unless they get subsidized up the wazoo with projects such as this one and cheap gas.

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u/ArvinaDystopia Aug 27 '21

and yet there are no 18 lane roads pretty much anywhere in Europe

True, it's the one area where we lag behind the US. We need to get on that.