kidphilly, please drop this whole "philly is only 46 miles from nyc" mantra that you keep repeating in every.single.thread. it's a very tired argument, and you're totally misrepresenting the true distance between these cities.
when people describe the distance from one city to another, they are generally talking about the trip from
downtown to downtown (i.e the central business district, center city, or "core"), NOT the distance between the most remote fringes of the city limits, which is meaningless in the context to which you keep trying to apply it (i.e. that nyc and philly are so close that they're practically neighbors). sure, the outer suburbs of the two cities come into very close contact (some would say they overlap in mercer county), but that's very different from trying to claim that the cities themselves are close as you seem to think.
i've personally done the drive down the nj turnpike from nyc to philly (midtown/downtown manhattan to center city) dozens upon dozens of times, and you know what? the distance is
nearly 95 miles, or slightly more than double the mileage that you quote.
and even your claim of 46 miles is bogus.
this map shows that the distance from the southern tip of staten island (i.e. the southernmost section of nyc proper, albeit nearly 30 miles from midtown with a very suburban character) to the northeastern edge of the philly city limits is 60 miles. even if i adjust the route on google maps to try to emulate "statute miles" rather than "driving miles",
it still comes out to about 55 miles.
not that the distance between the fringes of these cities really means anything. you'd have a much better argument if you focused on the suburban overlap in mercer county rather than trying to make the cities seem closer than they really are.
and another thing:
you claim to drive from center city to the lincoln tunnel in 65 minutes? seriously?
on what, the starship enterprise?
you'd have to be driving an
average of 90 mph the entire way to do that. and it would have to be at like 3 in the morning, with few cars on the road.
is it feasible? technically, i guess so. but it's totally unrealistic given the amount of congestion on the nj turnpike at most hours of the day, not to mention all of the speed traps along that highway.
how many speeding tickets have you gotten on the nj turnpike over the years? or am i to believe you routinely go 90+ mph on the turnpike from CC to the lincoln tunnel with impunity?
i think this is another example of you stretching the truth to make it seem that the cities are closer than they really are.
btw, san jose and san francisco
are about 48 miles apart from downtown to downtown, which is roughly half the distance between nyc and philly. there is no way you can possibly claim that the distance between nyc and philly is comparable.
sorry, you seem like a nice guy and all, but this particular argument of yours is just flat-out wrong and needed to be addressed.
/rant
btw, i agree with 18montclair that if the u.s. census bureau were to combine nyc and philly into one mega CSA, it would have to do the same for other regions in the nation. and i'm not sure i see that happening.
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