On: Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality tr...

[emsign]

The US is a big country.

[jjcm → emsign]

Australia around the same size, but has excellent public transportation (relative to the US).

[sien → jjcm]

Australian transport is still dominated by cars though.

https://chartingtransport.com/category/australian-cities/

At least 80% of surface passenger kilometers are in cars.

[from-nibly → jjcm]

Most of austrailias population is concentrated around a few areas. The us population is very spread out.

[xeromal → emsign]

Big and empty in a lot of places