cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40545492
India’s definitely aping the US all right in terms of how utterly carbrained everyone is becoming
Still not that big of an achievement, but it’s total length and India is only about 1/3 the size of the US. So it’s more than 3 times as dense already.
But if this is about metro trains then size doesn’t matter as much as number of big and dense cities
number of big and dense cities
of which the US has a quite a few
Right but many does the US have vs. how many does India have? The original comparison was for their land size, I think a better comparison would be based on the number of big and dense cities.
Yes, it’s not a very useful metric. Better would probably amount of people living in urban areas / area of urban areas.
For metro rail population density is what matters, since it is almost exclusively an urban thing. On the global list of population density by country, India is #19 while the US is #149 (out of 197).
India has about 4 times the population of the US, so even if they could all afford cars, geometrically it wouldn’t work
For the list it is an achievements. That means it grew from the third largest to the second largest network. Catching up with China will take longer since it’s 11x as large.
India is much poorer than the US, so i think it’s a big achievement
The US spends practically nothing on public transit, this is like claiming you can run faster than a cheetah but neglecting to mention that you specifically mean you can outrun Lasty The One-Legged Cheetah
Like yeah it’s an achievement, but maybe it would be a more impressive achievement if you weren’t essentially claiming “hey look were almost not in last place”.
But it does help if it’s against a famous name. For example saying “I had a better baseball career than Michael Jordan” can really draw headlines.
The US hasn’t seriously invested in its infrastructure in 50 years now. I’m glad that India is at least ahead of the US, so it’s a start.
That’s a perfect comparison, actually. I would probably also have a snarky voice in my head while reading that, but I’ve never laid a railroad track or played baseball, so I don’t really have a leg to stand on
Metro rail network length per country isn’t a very useful metric. India already passed Japan.
As of 2020 the top ten were:
- China
- United States
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- Russia
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- France
- Turkey
There is country size, population, population density, percentage of population living in urbanized areas … a lot of factorsimportant for metro rail
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