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Basically half of us live in 2 cities as it is and we’re more urbanised than the US, UK, France, or South Korea.
Very few people live in the vast expanses of land, and rural towns are shrinking. We all live in very few cities overall. It’s easy to cater to that if we bothered to.
The vast majority of Australians live in a densely populated strip on the east coast. It should have high speed rail from Melbourne to Brisbane decades ago.
Though to be fair to Australia, there is no way to make an efficient public transit system for the whole country.
Yes there is?
Basically half of us live in 2 cities as it is and we’re more urbanised than the US, UK, France, or South Korea.
Very few people live in the vast expanses of land, and rural towns are shrinking. We all live in very few cities overall. It’s easy to cater to that if we bothered to.
Not Just Bikes covers this same misconception about the US thoroughly in a great video.
Its not about “size” its about population density. Cities can have public trasit and clustered rural areas can be contected by rail but when cities and towns are so spread out with nothing in between a rail system connecting them become more and more costly.
If you can build a road you can build a railway
The vast majority of Australians live in a densely populated strip on the east coast. It should have high speed rail from Melbourne to Brisbane decades ago.