| Thus speaks someone unfamiliar with it, it would appear. The reverse is in fact true, as @lispm points out. It's complex, it's diverse, it's tailored to each individual town and city. Big cities have urban rail or light rail or both, smaller ones have trams or trolleybuses, smaller ones may have just buses. To get to and from the stops, some cities have footpaths, some private bicycles, some public cycle sharing schemes. And any combinations of the above, of course. Every system bespoke to that city. Every city's system totally unique. Outlier cities, such as very mountainous ones, integrate cable car systems into the mix, such as La Paz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi_Telef%C3%A9rico And Medellín: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrocable_(Medell%C3%ADn) Chongqing has a remarkable system because the city spans a set of mountain ranges and valleys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing_Rail_Transit The exact reverse of your statement is the case. The simplistic one-size-fits-all answer is: "get everyone to drive, give them loads of big roads and pave half the city for parking." https://oldurbanist.blogspot.com/2011/12/we-are-25-looking-a... |