> It has wonderful public transportation and cars are almost non-existent in Tokyo and Osaka.
What version of Tokyo have you been to? Cars are everywhere in Tokyo. A quarter of commuters drive alone.
What version of Tokyo have you been to? Cars are everywhere in Tokyo. A quarter of commuters drive alone.
That's really low compared to NA where even in a metro area I'd guess it's at least 50%.
Your point was that "cars are almost non-existent in Tokyo and Osaka", which hardly is supported by the fact that 25% of commuters drive.
For example, I live in Seattle, city with one of the worse traffic situations in the country. However, if you stroll on most of the surface streets in downtown, you'll never notice that. Most congestion in the metro occurs on the major freeways that allow one to travel through the area on a north-south axis: SR-99, I-5 and I-405, and on the surface streets and ramps directly leading to these freeways. Before you get to these, and after you get off them, you'll see rather little traffic, and pretty much no congestion to speak of.