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To: TimF who wrote (706011)	3/27/2013 1:43:31 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1578501

No its the Bay Area. Check the link. San Francisco and Oakland together only have about 1.2 million. Tim, now you are excluding their suburbs? Why? this larger CSA contains 7.46 million people—the sixth-largest CSA in the U.S. 1- The CSA goes beyond the bay area. It goes as far as something like 100 miles South of San Jose. I don't care how far south is goes.............the CSA is what businesses predicate their business decisions on and how cities market themselves. And just for the record, hi speed rail will travel thru those 100 miles to get to LA. 2 - Even if you use the CSA's population instead it changes almost nothing. It gets you only an extra 310k people. More than enough to fill seats on hi speed rail. More than enough. 3- The CSA for Los Angeles goes all the way to the borders with Nevada and Arizona. Its a bit of a stretch to call that metro LA. Why is this important? Hi speed rail will probably go all the way to San Diego. Another hi speed rail line is planned between Vegas and LA and they working to have the two lines meet up in one of the LA exurbs. 4 - Even if you do (and you use the San Francisco CSA as well). And you moved the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan_City_CSA, to southern California (without moving any of the existing people out), greater Tokyo and Osaka would still have something like 3 million more people. Like I said, maybe they won't be able to schedule as many trains on the LA/SF route as they do with the Tokyo/Osaka route. So what? 6 - An in addition to the much greater density, again you have much more expensive fuel, and other factors acting against driving the trip in Japan. Basically that line covers the number one region in the world for high speed rail traffic. It fits there not just better but much better than anywhere else. Hi speed rail is successful all around the world. Only Rs think otherwise. The traffic between SF and LA is horrendous. You think traffic in Tokyo and Osaka and Nagoya is a piece of cake? Also the Japanese drive is almost 70 miles longer. Straw man. It doesn't matter what the traffic is between Tokyo and Osaka. We are talking SF to LA......and the traffic between those two cities is horrendous.

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