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But in rural Oklahoma, traffic jams will be far less frequent. Not to mention that people can actually afford to live close to their work, unlike LA or NYC. Much less need for a public transportation system. The same cannot be said of the East coast (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington) or the West coast.

As an aside, the high cost of the NYC MTA is also caused by the already existant urban development in NYC. In less densely populated areas the costs will be much lower.

For instance, in the Netherlands you could build a railway line all the way to the north (80 miles or so) for the same amount of money you need to build a subway from two parts of Amsterdam (15 miles at most, with quite a bit of track already in place). Public transportation between the two parts of the city will be a whole minute quicker, at the cost of about 2.0 billion euros, if the budget is sufficient (which it will not be).