[recoil]

> none of them save Russia & Turkey are larger than Texas

I don't know where you got this bizarre notion. The populations of Russia (~144m), Germany (~83m), Turkey (~80m), France (~67m), The United Kingdom (~65m), Italy (~61m), Spain (~46m), Ukraine (~43m), and Poland (~38m) are all quite a lot larger than Texas (~27m).

[ars]

Physical size, not population. Public transport only works well in small areas. The higher the population density the better it works.

There are a lot of people in the US who would not be willing to live in a place with a population density high enough to support public transport.