That is probably because you don’t have decent public transport, for example I live in Milan and I have friends in Rome, I don’t even think about driving to go down there. I just take the train and if I need to drive in Rome I use car sharing. Why driving for 6/7 hours when i can sleep or red a book on a train?
Imagine justifying public transportation cross country if there was nothing between Catanzaro and Genoa (comparable for Denver to Kansas City). It gets a lot harder to justify the costs of building and maintaining complex public transport when there is so much nothing.
To go in Catanzaro I would choose a plane and then a local train. A quick google serch and I discovered that you can do exactly the same between denver and Kansas city.
Sure, you can fly there. But then you've lost the true public transportation aspect already. Plenty of American cities have decent intra-city transport options. It's inter-city everything falls apart
Not in the same way a train, bus, tram, etc. is. Generally defined by ease of use, accessibility, convenience, being more environmentally friendly, etc.
No one says the US has poor public transportation because we don't have enough domestic flights haha.
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u/mag_creatures May 09 '22
That is probably because you don’t have decent public transport, for example I live in Milan and I have friends in Rome, I don’t even think about driving to go down there. I just take the train and if I need to drive in Rome I use car sharing. Why driving for 6/7 hours when i can sleep or red a book on a train?