[PRCo] Re: pat__service__cuts__2007.01.23-changed to 2/1/07

[Fred Schneider]

Germany has 232 people per square kilometer, we have 31.   Sorry if  
you don't like the idea of kilometers but the rest of the world  
does.   Even Canada uses them these days.   (Roughly one square  
kilometer = .39 square miles so it would be 90 people per square mile  
in Germany versus 12 in the U. S. if anyone needs it that way.)      
The point I was making initially was that they have a lot more people  
in the same space as we do and that they don't need to drive as far  
to go see friends ... and this proves it.   They have 7.5 times more  
people in the same space as we do.   That makes it a lot easier to  
get their people to use public transport to go to work than it does  
to force our people into a bus or tram or subway car or railroad  
car.   It also makes it much more cost effective to run a transit  
vehicle when you can fill it up than when you have 9 people in it ...  
even if you do subsidize it, the subsidies can be much lower per user.

And Germany isn't the only country with a high population density.    
The United Kingdom has 246.    Italy has 193.    Switzerland, in  
spite of all the mountains, has 176 people per square kilometer.  
Czech Republic (Boris Cefer's home) has 130.    France has 110.    
Austria has 98.   Maybe that gives you some clue why I've spent so  
much time chasing trolleys in Europe.   They have them.

India has 336.   Oh yes and Puerto Rico, which they list separately  
from the U. S. (in spite of U. S. Post Office trucks running all over  
the island, has 436 people per square kilometer.

But why waste your time.   Click on the link below, then you can  
clock each country for more information.   You can spend hours  
looking at information and have a real geography lesson.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density

On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:06 AM, John Swindler wrote:

> What's the population density of Germany vs. U.S., Fred?  What part of
> Germany compares to spread out nature of our mid-west?