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Article #375Re: Stacking freeways
From: Garry Wiegand
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:26
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:26
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"Robert Thomas Klein II" <sfviolinist99@hotmail.com> wrote: > No matter what you think of professional sports, it saved countless >lives that day. Hm. Your remark is cryptic, but I'll assume you're speaking of the World Series game that day in Candlestick. (My apologies if you were just intending to make a joke. Usenet is often not very good at communicating subtleties...) There were about 63,000 people in Candlestick that day. The population of the Bay Area in 1989 was just over 6,000,000. Therefore just about 1.05% of the Bay Area population was in Candlestick at the moment of the earthquake, and therefore not out driving. There were a total of 63 deaths ascribed to the Loma Prieta earthquake throughout the Bay Area. If those 1.05% of the people hadn't been in Candlestick, there might have been 1.05% * 63 == less than one additional death. That number I would say is a lot smaller than "countless". Garry PS - "Paul S. Highland" <paul-kim@thegrid.net> wrote: >And to think that I drove that highway at least twice a year in the late 1970s and 1980s, >not to mention the millions of others who commuted on it every day. ... Average traffic was something like 150,000 per day back then, over the entirety of 880.
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