Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What happened with the coming of the horse-railway? As long as foot transit prevailed, the street system alone properly circulated and distributed the population. There was no serious congestion because any new population could easily spread out. But afterwards--when the three or four mile limit was passed, the essential thing was not done. That is, the town authorities, the community representatives, did not cause the street car system to ramify over the old and the new town--over the entire town--in the same manner that the street system alone had formerly done. Instead, the matter was left...
...repeated itself from those old days until now through all the developments of the transit art, from the horse-car to the ten-car subway express train. Mean-while there was plenty of vacant space available for development and plenty of population to comfortably fill it. But instead of spreading out, the population started to spread up. Instead of living and working in one plane we are now doing so in forty planes, and the limit...
...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 system and the street system should spread out over the new territory simultaneously--the two systems should expand together. Then the other services, such as water, sewers and light can follow. But transit is the first essential. With all of the other services mentioned, but without transit, a new city area is almost useless to the community...
...moving streets--our transit lines. We have permitted private capital to exploit our transit necessity, and we have gone on planning foot transit street systems during all this time, and wondered since we were doing what we had been doing from the beginning, why the population did not spread out at once to all of the new areas opened up, even though real transportation was not yet in sight. That is to say, we have left out our planning, the city transit system, the real circulating and distributing medium of our modern cities--one of the essential elements necessary...
...regular Class Day spread of the association will be held, as usual, on the afternoon of Class Day, June 20. As in past years, it will be open not only to members of the association, but to all members of the University and their friends...