A lot of the discourse surrounding rapid transit systems, especially in North America, is that some cities are "too small" for a comprehensive transit system or a metro, but Rennes - a French city with less than half a million residents, disagrees.
@RM_Transit Periodic reminder that the average population of America's 19,500 cities is ~5,500. If your city has 10,000, you're in the largest 30% of cities. At 100,000 you're in the top 2%. At 1,000,000, your city is in the largest 0.05% of US cities.
@RM_Transit Still the majority of cities in the US are well under 500k. I'm glad to see it's possible but it still needs to fit this majority in order to gain traction.
@RM_Transit If you are in one of those small cities you need places like New York to prove metros can be built for cheap. When metros cost $billion+ per mile you don't have a hope, New York can barely afford to build them in the places where they will get the most ridership. However if we can do them $10million/mile - that is about what a road costs and affordable for your small city. (that price is maybe possible for elevate rail, not underground - but your small city should be looking at elevated anyway)
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