[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Streetcars All Over the World - Zurich (2)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Schneider Fred wrote:

> I was coming up with similar problems with Linz and Graz ... 5000
> people per square mile because the cities include farmland and little
> villages well beyond what we would consider the edge of the city.
> Linz has 189,000 people and Graz has 290,000 people.   Again, we are
> probably dealing with 20,000 people per square mile in the true core
> portion of the cities.   And once you leave town, you are in the
> countryside and not 10 or 15 or 20 miles of suburbs.

I'll be taking a tram to my hotel in Graz in just a few days, now... and

> commuter trains run from the suburbs.   We have rmiles and miles of
> asphalt roads serving to access 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and later
> homes.   The towns that were once in the country have vanished ...
> they are just older homes amid the newer ones.   But if I go to
> Munich, their commuter trains connect outlaying towns with Munich.

then train back to Munich Saturday, for a little Oktoberfest before I 
return home.

Wish I had more time, and more money.