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The absolute scale of this
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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):
That looks alot smaller even with the buildings surrounding it.
also transports significantly more people than a single of the dozens of interchanges in Houston
This is comparing apples to oranges - Gare du Nord supports far, far more transportation than the highway interchange does.