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By kevlahan (registered) | Posted August 06, 2011 at 15:06:40
Mr Meister,
I know I shouldn't reply, since I doubt you are really interested in learning about the urban transit systems in France, but you are deliberately distorting the data.
I compared the urban agglomeration populations, which are the areas served by LRT (and directly comparable to the urban area of the City of Hamilton), and so we need to compare the areas of the respective agglomerations.
It is important to note that the French subdivide their cities much more finely than we do here, which is why the central city has a small area and relatively small population compared to the agglomeration. It is as if each Hamilton Ward were a separate municipality. For example, my in-laws live in Poisat, which is a part of greater Grenoble, contiguous with it, but has a population of only 2081.
Here are the areas of some of the agglomerations served by LRT in the cities you mentioned, which you could have easily looked up yourself (google agglomeration angers superficie, etc)
Angers 510km^2 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communaut%C...
Bordeaux 551.88 km^2 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communaut%C...
Caen 184.69 km^2 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communaut%C...
Clermont-Ferrand 300.62km^2 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clermont_Co...
Grenoble 307.07 km^2 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communaut%C... http://www.semitag.com/ (website of the transit system for greater Grenoble)
Nantes 523.36 km^2 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes_M%C3...
etc.
Note that the urban area of Hamilton is 227km^2, and its urban population is 647,634, which makes it smaller and denser than many of the above French urban agglomerations.
Comment edited by kevlahan on 2011-08-06 15:40:44
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