Originally Posted by
Gym123456
Holland is smaller in area than all US states, other than Rhode Island- much easier to make such drastic changes in the transportation system than in a country that's as large and decentralized as the US. Also, the US wasn't bombed to smithereens in the not so distant past, as Europe was. Also, many US cities are more populated than the whole country of Holland and mass transportation just wouldn't work when many jobs are outside of the city by necessity.
I know Europe is smaller and I understand that it is difficult to add in mass transport in existing dense development. But here in the DFW area most developments are only 20 - 30 years old. Some of the northern cities grew from like 100K population to 200K in less than 10 years. There is not much old development which would hinder mass transportation. And they are still expanding like crazy and building acres of brand new suburbs from scratch on what was farmland before. There would be great opportunities to come up with great alternative transportation solutions when you start from scratch. But this just does not happen.