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Originally Posted by Bigtime
An interesting statistic on population density from Chris Turner in regards to HSR:
"Rough est. of #yyc- #yeg corridor's population density: 83 per sq km* / Spain: 92 per sq km. Spain has Europe's most extensive HSR network."
"(* in last tweet: my back-of-envelope calculation used a corridor 75km wide by 400 km long, with est. population of 2.5m)" |
Not apples to apples. If we're using all of spain, including the less dense parts without HSR, then we should use all of Alberta as well.
And Alberta in total has a population density of ~5.6 people per sq km.