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[โ€“] hakase@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Surprisingly enough, the infrastructure needed to support millions of people is a lot larger than the infrastructure needed to support a few tens of thousands.

The enormous Gare du Nord, Paris, for example (also population 0):

[โ€“] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That looks alot smaller even with the buildings surrounding it.

[โ€“] alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

also transports significantly more people than a single of the dozens of interchanges in Houston

[โ€“] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

This is comparing apples to oranges - Gare du Nord supports far, far more transportation than the highway interchange does.