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In article <G8826G.57G@thunder.sbay.org>,
    Ian Kluft <ikluft@thunder.sbay.org> wrote:

>>What about that vast number of people who don't live in urban areas? 

>That's a good point. 

Not really.  By census bureau definitinos, the vast majority of Americans, 
not to mention Californians, live in metropolitan areas:   

California........................... 33,145,121     (1999 est.)
  Metropolitan....................... 32,051,151       96.7% 
  Metropolitan Inside Central City... 12,836,230       38.7% 
  Metropolitan Outside Central City.. 19,214,921       58.0% 
  Nonmetropolitan....................  1,093,970        3.3%  

(That list is perhaps a bit misleading, in that the whole of big
counties like San Bernardino and LA get classed as metropolitan, but not 
terribly so, since the bulk of the population of those counties lives in 
the more densely populated parts.)

>Not even every urban area is large enough to support any more transit than
>buses.  

You're assuming that population patterns are static, when in fact, they 
respond to the transportation infrastructure that's provided.   
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