Bob, i do realise the economics is different, the reason why i prefaced my comment with something to that effect. but yes, we'll come back to this again after 20 years.. :-)
regards, subash On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:42:29 -0600 "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subash, > Thanks for the perspective from your part of the world. > I respect your opinion. Talk to me again after 20 years of auto > sales. :-) Your cities are a lot bigger than ours, also with more > population density. Chicago is only 9 million people and the 3rd > biggest in the US. They said Mumbai was 18 million in the recent news > casts. The more you have a concentrated population density, and it > works better. We need about 5,000 people per square mile to make the > light rail (cheapest) alternative work here. There are 15 square > miles of appropriate population density in the 200 square miles of > the city of Chicago. Regards, Bob S. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.