Caryl Terrell, The Sierra Club. Brookings Institution Symposium, March 1995 . Transit begins to be economical at 7 Dwellings per acre if the entire population is within walking distance of a transit stop. They both have a population of 25,000. The island has 1.5 million tourists a year while the peninsula has 5.5 million.
Tourism is encouraged as municipal policy.
The English Department of Transport has concluded that more roads create more traffic. In 1860, the capital city of Washington, with a population of 60,000, had unlighted streets, open sewers, and pigs roaming about its principal avenues. This is a condition worse than the worst of our cities. There is hope.