Chris Johnson has his number from the U.S. census, I have mine. Wonder why the census bureau thought that my number was informative enough that it bothered calculating it for all of those places... Maybe it has to do with not counting places where nobody could easily live, which Chris mentions in his last paragraph. In particular, urbanized areas are a good way to compare transit, since there's not much point in running trains in aras that have fewer than 1,000 people per square mile. His last number for the Twin Cities is les than one person per acre.
Chris's data would seem to confirm that there's not much reason to have rail transit it the Twin Cities, since the population density is 1/4 to 1/16 that of New York. Maybe Apple Valley should have a subway like LA because it is more densely populated. Or Brooklyn Center (45% more dense than Apple Valley.) Columbia Heights (twice as dense as AV). Landfall (9,000 per square mile.) Want to compare the density of the most densely populated precint in New York to Mumbai? Go ahead. A couple of years ago, the Sierra Club web site said that it thought that "efficient" urban density was at least twice as dense as that. Visit www.EffectiveTransit.org The Independent Unsubsidized Voice of Citizens for Effective Transit in the Twin Cities (no lrt) * lrt isn't a potato chip, you can stop at just one * Bruce Gaarder Highland Park Saint Paul MN [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
