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To: tejek who wrote (705653)	3/25/2013 5:31:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577133

You can specify all you want but the changing political situation determines what actually happens. Also we don't have anything comparable to Tokyo to Osaka in the US. Those cities are about 300 miles apart (314 following the roads on the shortest Google maps path). Osaka has almost three million people in an urban areas of over 18 and a half million (more people in the city then Chicago, and almost 6 million more people in the metro area than the LA metro area). Tokyo has almost nine million people in the city (more than New York), and over thirty five million people in the metro area (#1 in the world, more than metro New York and metro LA combined). Then combined with that you have high tolls and very high gas taxes discouraging driving. If you added a metro LA to metro NY's population, and added another metro LA to metro DC's population, and added and doubled the price of gasoline in the US, then you would have a comparable route to Tokyo-Osaka.