Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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 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...
...instead of the community assuming this important function, it left it to private initiative, as has already been explained at some length. Despite nearly a century of experience, had we been willing to heed it, we have almost ignored our 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...
...cities might with equal justification be characterized in the same manner? That is just the theory--the theory of the hypothetical architect--upon which most of our modern cities are being planned and constructed today. We are planning and constructed today. We are planning our cities only with foot transit streets because such streets were all that was-necessary to circulate and distribute the population 100 years...
...area basis of developing city transit had been followed from the beginning, many of the most objectionable features of city life would not exist today. Population congestion, housing congestion, business congestion, manufacturing congestion, amusement congestion, and the great bogey of our transit problem--the rush hour congestion, all would be reduced to a minimum or eliminated. Everybody would be more comfortable, healthier and happier. Our people would not be living so much in layers. Instead most people would be in their own homes spread out through the open country, thus making living conditions more ideal