• aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
    312·
    6 months ago

    Yes, the US is 32 times the size of Italy, and Houston has 132 times the population of Siena. We build infrastructure to accommodate the conveyances people find useful in such a large country.

    Now, the ragebait loser who composed this bizarre scale comparison might compare Houston’s interchage to some found on the Autostrada A1, or to the city center of Rome or Milan instead of the 124th-most populous city in Italy, but they needed you to be angry

    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
      92·
      6 months ago

      Didn’t I just read how Houston no longer has well-defined rush hours; its highways are congested all the time now.

      “Useful.” Uh huh.

      • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
        26·
        6 months ago

        Houston MSA is 7.8m, when you talk about houston freeways you are necessarily talking about the burbs as well.

        Regardless, its an inane ragebait comparison - the land isn’t wasted, most of Texas is empty. Houston has high density urban core (and even a metro) - probably much larger than this tiny Italian town’s city center.