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Originally Posted by accord1999
Sure, but my original comment was not in reference to HSR but to Busy Bee's assertion that cars only uniquely dominate in the US because the US Federal Government wanted it to and subsidized it.
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But this is true. Outside of a few small petro-states, cars are uniquely dominant in the U.S. If you put aside NYC, basically no major U.S. metro has significant transit share in global terms. This is a huge reason that HSR is a longshot in the U.S. context.
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Originally Posted by accord1999
And yes Western Europe is over 80% share for cars.
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No, it isn't. It's 80% if comparing PT vs private autos. But that isn't modal share, because you aren't including walking and biking (both of which are generally very high in Western European cities).
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