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dam, so is Fairbanks not a city
No, Fairbanks just isn't fulfilling its potential.
You asked about cities that have enough people to fill a bus. Fairbanks has enough people. It just doesn't want to fill a bus.
Which buses are capable of taking 30k people onboard?
Surely even with a fairly low population like that, it'd be hard to find such a large vehicle that you could say that there isn't enough people in the city to fill it. Perhaps I'm mistaken. Perhaps American buses seat thousands and thousands of people?
Honestly America has 3 cities, NYC, Chicago, and DC. If you're so spread out you don't have effective mass transit, you're not a city, you're an overgrown suburb.
But also <100K is def not a city.