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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by mikekchar on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:19AM (#19551771)
Although according to Google Washington DC has 700,000 people and Baltimore 600,000. Probably a more realistic comparison would be Bristol and Southampton/Portsmouth where there is realistically 1 train an hour (technically 2, but the second one has a change and runs 8 minutes after the first one).

Comparing trains from London is not really fair because virtually every train in the south ends up in London eventually. Somewhat tragically, I once tried to take a train from Watford to visit Hatfield House, some 14 miles away. I think it took me 3 hours getting in and out of London :-)

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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by masklinn on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:07AM (#19552275)
> Although according to Google Washington DC has 700,000 people and Baltimore 600,000. Probably a more realistic comparison would be Bristol and Southampton/Portsmouth where there is realistically 1 train an hour (technically 2, but the second one has a change and runs 8 minutes after the first one).

OTOH between Macon (pop 34000) and Lyon (pop 500000) there is up to 4 trains / hour at commute times (1 an hour otherwise), over a slightly longer distance.

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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by ovi256 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:34AM (#19552122)
>Washington DC has 700,000 people and Baltimore 600,000

You really have to look at the metro population.

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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by mikekchar on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:48AM (#19552180)
London has a population of over 8 million and 14 million for the metro population. I was trying to pick something that had even close to a similar population density of of Washington Baltimore in the UK. Comparing to London is like comparing to NYC.
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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by richardhod on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:43AM (#19563218)
that's a story and a half you could tell. No buses? And I wonder why blablacar hasn't taken off in the UK
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