6 Aug
2007
6 Aug
'07
5:50 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
On 04/08/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
wrote:
That would make more sense if the USA didn't have so many vast tracts
with nothing. No people, no buildings, no nothing. It's like China.
China is a big country, but most of the people live in a much smaller area.
Peace... Sridhar
Liam Proven wrote:
I wish!
No. Millions do, but most use cars. The snag being that it's a
relatively tiny island and our biggest "freeways" are 4 lanes in each
direction; most major roads are just 1 or 2 lanes. Narrower than much
of Europe, let alone the States.
Ergo, horrific traffic congestion. 60 million people - one-fifth as
many as the USA - but in one-fortieth of the area, so around 8x the
population density.
(UK: 60M people, 244,000 sq km. USA: 300M people, 9,600,000 sq km.) But it will probably come in time. At some point,
the now largely
SI-based UK will have to adopt SI speed limits and so forth.
I thought you all
traveled by rail over there. :)