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

[Schneider Fred]

Where the hell are you, Good buddy?

Graz is a little large to mentally digest.   The link below includes  
the common things.

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

If you have a chance to get up to Linz, it is a much easier city to  
find your way around ... much smaller.   And south of it is an  
amazing commuity of 4,000 people which is solar powered ... a green  
city.

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

On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:29 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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.
>