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Originally Posted by ssiguy
I don't think Canadians being any more urban in demographics has anything to do with it. EVERY single Canadian city/metro has much higher transit usage than a comparable US city with the lone exception being New York. New very wealthy and sprawling cities like Calgary has transit ridership 15X higher transit ridership than similar sized Nashville or Indy.
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I'm skeptical of the racism explanation precisely because American cities that are whiter than average don't have better transit than the ones that are more mixed. The best transit in the U.S. exists in cities with higher percentages of Black than the national average (NYC, Chicago, DC, Philadelphia).