>>975997>What are population densitiesMetropolitan France is roughly three times as dense as Texas. That's three times as many people to potentially ride the railways.
New Jersey - 1210.10/sq mi (467.2/sq km)
Rhode Island - 1,021.6/sq mi (394.4/sq km)
Netherlands - (393/sq km)
Belgium - (337/sq km)
Massachusetts - 871.1/sq mi (336.3/sq km)
Connecticut - 741.6/sq mi (286.3/sq km)
United Kingdom - (269/sq km)
Maryland - 618.7/sq mi (238.9/sq km)
Germany - (233/sq km)
Italy - (192/sq km)
Delaware - 485.3/sq mi (187.4/sq km)
Luxembourg - (173/sq km)
New York - 420.1/sq mi (162.2/sq km)
Florida - 378.0/sq mi (145.9/sq km)
Czech Republic - (130/sq km)
France - (116/sq km)
Pennsylvania - 286.1/sq mi (110.5 /sq km)
Ohio - 284.2/sq mi (109.7/sq km)
Portugal - (109/sq km)
California - 251.3/sq mi (97.0/sq km)
Austria - (97/sq km)
Spain - (92/sq km)
Illinois - 231.6/sq mi (89.4/sq km)
Romania - (80/sq km)
Lithuania - (44/sq km)
Texas - 105.2/sq mi (40.6/sq km)
Latvia - (37/sq km)
United States - 89.5/sq mi (34.6/sq km)
Estonia - (28/sq km)
Colorado - 52.6/sq mi (20.3/sq km)
Sweden - (20/sq km)
Oregon - 42.0/sq mi (16.2/sq km)
Finland - (16/sq km)
Russia - (8/sq km)
Idaho - 20.0/sq mi (7.7/sq km)
>>975994High Speed Rail needs to at least partially justify the cost of construction through ridership (or at least projected future ridership). If we can't even get the line where all the big cities and people are running at high speed, what hope is there for the rest of the country?
