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by backscratches 54 days ago
We have to pick some metrics, but I bet per capita buses and train cars are dwarfed by even cities well below the tiers you listed compared to NYC.
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Buses and train cars are a small part of infrastructure, regardless of whether it's the only part of infrastructure certain information ecosystems speak to. But sure. $30 billion per year over many decades for those parts, in one city, provides pretty extensive systems that don't even make sense in smaller cities.

> I bet per capita buses and train cars are dwarfed by even cities well below the tiers

And I will find even smaller US cities with even better metrics.

> And I will find even smaller US cities with even better metrics.

You won't. There is no city in the US you can get around better than even a 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th tier European city. Its silly to even argue.