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If you read this, or other things about reducing car traffic in Barcelona, one should keep the following in mind: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lafabricadelsol/en/noticia/...

6000cars/km² in Barcelona.

San Francisco/Oakland metropolitan area has 4000/sq mi... 1540/km²

Guttenberg, NJ has the highest in the US with 20,600/sq mi (8000/km²)

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.planetizen.com/node/45622%3...

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Barcelona has a population density of 16,000/km², while the city of San Francisco has a density of 2,419/km².

Paris has a population density of 20000/km², and Manhattan of 28,872/km².

Population density is correlated with car density up to a certain point.

Usually up to the point where giving 50-100sqm of road to 1.1 people traveling in a car prevents more people from living in the area (because all there is is roads and parking), and more scalable infrastructure is built.

> the city of San Francisco has a density of 2,419/km²

Where are you getting that number? Wikipedia has 7,194/km².

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Thank you. Some of us forced to use neutered browsers on iOS really appreciate this.

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