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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (246999)	8/22/2005 4:53:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572298

Ted, The urbanized area in and around Los Angeles has become the most densely populated place in the continental United States, according to the Census Bureau. Its density is 25 percent higher than that of New York, twice that of Washington, D.C., and four times that of Atlanta, as measured by residents per square mile of urban land. I'm not sure how the Census Bureau is calculating the data, or how the Post is interpreting it. But I can tell you that to me, NYC is a LOT more crowded than LA. The article doesn't disagree with that.........in fact, NYC proper is much more dense than LA proper. The difference is that once you get out of NYC into its suburbs, density drops dramatically whereas in LA it doesn't. It makes sense. The freeways in S. CA are clogged wherever you go whenever, day or not.........there is never any respite. That's thousands of miles of freeway. The fact that densities are high uniformly in both cities and the suburbs of S. CA help explain that constant and consistent traffic. You can see another reflection of high density in the rapid acceptance of mass transit in LA. In 1990, there was no mass transit ridership in non bus vehicles in the LA area. By 2000, there were at least ten to fifteen commuter rail lines, and 4 or 5 light rail/subway lines, all with high ridership levels almost from the moment they opened. ted