5 Aug
2007
5 Aug
'07
10:13 a.m.
On 04/08/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
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.)
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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. :)