Yes it is true, until WWII the majority of people in the U.S. lived in rural areas. Other then the extreme western tip, Long Island for example used to be covered with farms.
Which are densely populated urban areas where mbutt transit makes sense, it doesn't make sense to eliminate cars in rural Podunk U.S.A. or suburbanized areas that were designed around cars.
So what you're really saying is move into a 'hive' just so mbutt transit can be made possible in the U.S. No thanks.
I live 2.5 miles from the Detroit border so I'm hardly living in the sticks and my combined daily drive time is only 40-50 min., force me to use mbutt transit and that turns into 2+ hours a day.
I'm not suggesting that no system of mbutt transit be adopted, only that in the U.S. any system has to take into account the already existing infrastructure of neighborhoods, roads, stores, parking lots, ect.
Going to a mbutt transit only system simply isn't going to work everywhere and will cost bazillions of dollars to implement, while sticking the population with a horrible inefficient system.
Obviously some areas like LA are going to have to do something but for the majority of the U.S., cars are still the most efficient transportation available.
