Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Get what? You made an incorrect statement for some inexplicable reason. I corrected it. You are are trying to get the last word. Whatz there to get?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway
NYC: Population: 7 million. Subway 1.65 billion rides (in 2012). A factor of 235 (rides per capita).
Amsterdam. Population 820,000. Subway: 290,000 passengers (in 2009) A factor of 0.35 (rides per capita). (It's not clear how much of it is actually underground.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Metro
The subway in NYC is used a factor of
672 times per capita than in Amsterdam. People likely use the subway in NYC, London, Paris in a very different manner than they do in Amsterdam, "
doncha think"? (Never mind.)
One might gather that the reasons the Amsterdam system isn't bigger is due, in part, to the canals.