Monday, August 31, 2009



Dense about density

Right now, I’m on New Jersey Transit, near Rahway. Around me is a post-apocalyptic wasteland dense development as far as the eye can see. And not a buffalo in sight.

And you know what? A large fraction of the American population lives in places like this. Yes, America overall has low density, but many of us live in high-density corridors; very few of us live in the wide open spaces. That’s why arguments that, say, we can’t have high-speed rail, because America’s population density is so low, are profoundly stupid.

Which does not, of course,
stop them from being made.


... apparently Robert Samuelson Doesn't Like Trains ...
... or being him a genius of transport industry ...
... knows how to materialize oil from nothing ...
... such as the palestinian jewish carpenter ...
... did with loaves and fishes ...

... the irony of the story is that ...
... areas who could use railroad in the US ...
... have a factual higher "density" than in Europe ...






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