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Foot and horse travel limited the area, and in turn the population, of the pre-railroad cities of nearly a hundred years ago. The distance that the people would live away from the business center of the city was a matter of the time they were willing to spend in travel--to their occupations in the morning and to their homes at night. This time limit has always appeared to be about one hour. An hour's travel in a man and horse civilization meant three or four miles out for foot travellers. This was the real town limit...
...transit, which made use of the streets alone, then it was that street railways should have been planned and constructed as one of the principal clements necessary in the development of the city. Then such street railway facilities should have completely and comprehensively covered the old and new town area in such a manner that the street railway system could circulate and distribute the population over the larger town just as effectively as the street system alone had formerly done for the foot traveller. Only by expanding the transit system in this way, as the streets were extended...
...other words, just as the street system increases in proportion to the land area covered by the city, so should the city transit system do likewise. This means that when it becomes necessary to open up a new area for the growing population, the transit being considered...
...latter-connection, it may be of interest to give a few illustrations of the old adage, "There is nothing new under the sun," For instance, how many people know that many years before the discovery of America, the Indians inhabiting the area now known as New England had brought that nearly universal tool, the adze, to its highest degree of development in form and variety. The blades were made of a fine-grained stone capable of being worked to a good cutting edge. No where else in the world had this implement so many specialized shapes, each form being carefully...
...square mile is less than half that of Massachusetts and one-third that of England. But there are huge spots of density; as for example, in the far western province of Szechwan, four million people--the equivalent of the population of Massachusetts--life on the Chengtu Plain, an area less than twice the size of Rhode Island; and they are self-supporting at that. If China's potential resources of soil and mine and water power were developed with full effectiveness, and were served by adequate transportation facilities, her present population could have a modern standard of living. Nevertheless...