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Posted by Rail Blue on Sun Sep 9 13:32:12 2007, in response to Re: Phila Inquirer: Gas prices, global warming renewing interest in high-speed rail, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Sep 9 12:06:16 2007. There are few cities in Europe which are farther apart than Chicago is to New York within the boundaries of an individual nation, excluding Russia.That's because the individual nations are small, far closer to the size of US states. The first and third largest urban areas in the EU, Paris and Madrid, are a similar distance apart. Here is a useful map to compare scale. But seriously, in terms of population density, ten US states (plus DC of course) beat the EU's median member state (France). They are: NJ, RI, MA, CT, MD, NY, DE, FL, OH, and PA. And if you take the lower quartile (Ireland), you can include IL, CA, HI, VA, MI, IN, and NC. (And, incidentally, all but 13 big empty states beat Finland.) This gives quite a large contiguous area that is EU-comparable:  Green = France+ Yellow = Ireland+ Pink = Finland+ Gray = the sort of states that are of such Siberian density that they do nothing for the overall US figures |
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