I think people who
laugh at there being no
public transportation in the
US are just
ignorant.
There actually IS public transportation in the few American cities that have a dense enough population for it. Every big city I know of has a bus system.
New York,
DC,
Boston, and now
Los Angeles have
subways, probably more cities than that do. Yes, public transportation in the US exists!
The reason we all drive cars and that most locations don't have public transportation, is the low population density in the US compared to that of
European countries. I don't know the
percentage, but a LOT of people live in rural or suburban areas where it is just not possible to provide public transportation. That is the major difference between the EU and US. Most people in
Europe live in cities.
Public transportation is great in
cities. However, it won't work when people are spread out over miles and miles. Europeans make fun of us for all driving
environment trashing cars, but there is no other way to get around when everything is
spread out.
Besides, is there public transportation in rural
England or rural
France? To my knowledge there is not, because public transportation doesn’t work in
low population area.
Before you
bash countries practices, you have to look at the
background for that country.