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And just a small detail
Author: Commenter
Date: 08-05-2018 - 18:18
Since one hears the phrase "train to nowhere" bandied about with reference to almost any new rail construction these days, I thought I would check the size of places along the first section of CAHSR and compare them to other areas.
At one end there is Bakersfield. It is larger than the largest city found in twenty-two of the states. Fresno is larger than the largest city in twenty-eight of the states. This is all from the 2010 census. Since then Bakersfield has grown from 348,969 to 376,000 and Fresno from 496,879 to 522,00. In both cases the first number is from the census and the second is a sampling projection, i.e. not every person was asked. We do *that* only every ten years.
So there may have been changes in the rankings, but both cities have been growing faster than the country, or California, as a whole.
Well Bakersfield and Fresno aren't the whole list of course so here is the list of cities that will be connected when the whole system is finished (You don't have to argue with me. I'll be dead.) :) The number is the rank among all US cities by population. I only list a city if it is in the top 100.
Los Angeles 2
San Diego 8
San Jose 10
San Francisco 13
Fresno 33
Sacramento 34 (Yes, Fresno is bigger)
Long Beach 37 (They use LAX too)
Oakland 44
Bakersfield 51
Anaheim 55
Santa Ana 56
Riverside 58
Stockton 62
Chula Vista 75
Irvine 80
Fremont 96
So CAHSR will connect 1/6 of the cities in the top 100 in the US. I ignored the last two thirds of a percent, but who wants to live in two thirds of a city.
I almost added Glendale, but it's the one in Arizona at number 85. If the Las Vegas line gets built you can add Las Vegas 28 and throw in Henderson 70.
At one end there is Bakersfield. It is larger than the largest city found in twenty-two of the states. Fresno is larger than the largest city in twenty-eight of the states. This is all from the 2010 census. Since then Bakersfield has grown from 348,969 to 376,000 and Fresno from 496,879 to 522,00. In both cases the first number is from the census and the second is a sampling projection, i.e. not every person was asked. We do *that* only every ten years.
So there may have been changes in the rankings, but both cities have been growing faster than the country, or California, as a whole.
Well Bakersfield and Fresno aren't the whole list of course so here is the list of cities that will be connected when the whole system is finished (You don't have to argue with me. I'll be dead.) :) The number is the rank among all US cities by population. I only list a city if it is in the top 100.
Los Angeles 2
San Diego 8
San Jose 10
San Francisco 13
Fresno 33
Sacramento 34 (Yes, Fresno is bigger)
Long Beach 37 (They use LAX too)
Oakland 44
Bakersfield 51
Anaheim 55
Santa Ana 56
Riverside 58
Stockton 62
Chula Vista 75
Irvine 80
Fremont 96
So CAHSR will connect 1/6 of the cities in the top 100 in the US. I ignored the last two thirds of a percent, but who wants to live in two thirds of a city.
I almost added Glendale, but it's the one in Arizona at number 85. If the Las Vegas line gets built you can add Las Vegas 28 and throw in Henderson 70.
