Comments by "" (@jasonreed7522) on "How big can cities get?" video.

That sounds amazing, this morning i looked to see how long it would take to get places in the Northeast using options other than car and was greatly saddened. (Mainly seeing if i could enjoy a nice train ride instead of a 6-7 hour drive) The answer was so depressing. I am a 10min drive to a train station south of Hartford CT (basically dead center of the tiny state). And to visit Syracuse NY (center of the state) would take 4hrs by car or 8 by train (admittedly the mass pike and NY throughway are great for inter city travel which is what freeways are supposed to be used for). To get to within a hour and a half of my hometown would take me to lake placid or Plattsburgh NY (near the Canadian border due north of Albany) would take around 18hrs, and i still would have a 2 hour car drive left. I can go straight home in 6-7 depending on traffic and breaks needed. (3 of which are spent crossing mountains on 55-60mph roads, which admittedly is the only enjoyable part of the drive, interstates are so boring) Lets just say the American trains are not worth taking which is a shame, as Amtrak has 1 line that lets you take a car with you and that line connects 2 cities when it should be available for going to rural places where you objectively must use a car. (I had the idea of doing that before to get Americans on rails but DC to Orlando is an interesting choice for such an option)
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@steverempel8584 i think some mega cities with multiple cores are the results of two cities that each had 1 core having their suburbs grow until their was no obvious division between the cities. 1 case of how this could happen is that the Capital of NY is Albany and directly across the Hudson is Rensselaer but nobody even acknowledges the difference when talking about the region. (They are different counties) But for a mega/giga city to be truly unified you would need near perfect and fast public transit so that the different ends of town still have enough "weak connections" to not develop separate identities as nobody bothers visiting the far side if town for anything.
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