The subway was my favorite part of living in New York. The New York City Subway has more stations than any other subway system in the world (472), which means I can show up just about anywhere in the city and live there without a car at all. It was amazing. When I moved, I wondered: Why do so few American cities have a subway?

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How much does it cost to build and operate rail transport:
https://www.thoughtco.com/rail-transit-projects-costs-2798796

Urban densities and transit: a multidimensional perspective:
http://www.its.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/publications/UCB/2011/VWP/UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-6.pdf

Loo, BPY, and Cheng, AHT (2010). Are there useful measures of population size and income level for building subway systems? Some global evidence. Cities, 27(5), 299–306.

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– Oregon Department of Transportation
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– Virginia Department of Transportation

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