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To: tejek who wrote (706008)	3/26/2013 7:57:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578397

Population 7.15 million en.wikipedia.org That's just SFO.........that's why I said the SF Bay Area No its the Bay Area. Check the link. San Francisco and Oakland together only have about 1.2 million. 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. 2 - Even if you use the CSA's population instead it changes almost nothing. It gets you only an extra 310k people. 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. 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. 5 - If you want to use the equivilent of CSAs for Japan, you have the Kanto region fr Tokyo which has over 42 and a half million people, and the Kansai region for Osaka which adds another 27 and a third million. In between the greater Tokyo and Osaka areas you have the Chubu region which has almost 22 million more people. I'm not sure of the population of the whole area from the northern part of the San Francisco Bay area, to the southern part of the LA area, but all of CA has about 38 million people, compared to over 90 million for the Japanese regions in question. (And all three regions combined are not all that much bigger in area than the Los Angeles CSA all by itself.) 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. 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.