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Article #376Re: Stacking freeways
From: Nelson Lu
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:09
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:09
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In article <70apntc1fhjvvu06r3ibl60bjpb3qse2ui@4ax.com>, Garry Wiegand <gnews11@ithaca.com> wrote: > >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. However, that's not quite it; there were also a lot more people who went home early in order to catch the game on TV; they were probably better off at home than otherwise.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,aa5314338c14ea63 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: f59f9,865b7458dc0f15ec X-Google-Attributes: gidf59f9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-16 23:10:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!Xenon.Stanford.EDU!nlu From: nlu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu) Newsgroups: la.transportation,ba.transportation Subject: Re: Stacking freeways Date: 17 Aug 2001 06:09:27 GMT Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <9licen$lpd$1@usenet.Stanford.EDU> References: <88e6ca33.0108090052.98e157@posting.google.com> <3B7972EB.9C46C23@thegrid.net> <yjle7.2301$Wm3.1442973@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <70apntc1fhjvvu06r3ibl60bjpb3qse2ui@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: xenon.stanford.edu