Re:Houston’s Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate
by peapicker on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:54AM
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Googling Houston metropolitan population gives 6.5 million. For Tokyo you get over 37 million. So Tokyo is 5.7 times Houston. Having been both places, Houston is much smaller. Houston also can't build subways, they'd always be flooding.
Re:Houston’s Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate
by dheera on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @04:51PM
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If you include the entire metropolitan area, then there are many, many more train stations to factor in than just the central stations. But in any case, order-of-magnitude wise you get the idea. Houston isn't that small and many cities around the world with even 1 million people have excellent public transportation.
That's what life would look like if people in the US actually used trains on a regular basis.
In any case, all I'm saying is that if a massive number of people need to be moved, trains can scale well, additional reserve capacity can be deployed during evacuations, and it's also a lot safer than having hundreds of thousands of people taking to the roads in bad weather.