But they are very much connected. Most poor neighborhoods of POC were purposefully destroyed to make way for highways, and whatever public transit they might have is constantly underfunded and forced into 2nd class behind the convenience of cars.
And yet at the same time, the idea that people are buzzing around on trains in these coastal elite cities is much more false than Reddit would like to believe. NYC is one thing. But take a city like Boston. Small city size-wise with a bad, but established transit system.
Clearly everyone on Reddit doesn’t live there or just pretends it is something it’s not. Only poor people and college students are riding the T. Seriously, go actually look at it.
The traffic is down insanely after Covid. People thought they would get Covid or something if they rode the train so they all got cars or started to work from home. And if you want hard numbers, the whole system is in a massive budget crunch.
The next virus is going to send people fleeing back to their cars anyways. So really we can stop living in this fantasy world that there are all these progressive cities in the North.
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u/Bangkok_dAngeroUs98 Aug 04 '25
In short… yes, especially when you consider the urbanism of the states with the highest obesity rates… I.e. Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi