Word: transitions
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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...
Well, the line was constructed and operation started. Again the natural thing happened. Most people in the city had to walk to and from work--at three miles an hour. The lucky fellow who got near this new transit line--the moving street--could travel six or eight miles an hour. Of course, as many as could, moved near the routes. They were attracted, just as a magnet attracts. Just as the iron filings flow to the magnetic lines, so the people swarmed along the new line of travel--along the first horse-car line. What was the result? Congestion...
...Transit System Expanded...
When street railway transit became the essential means of circulating and distributing the people, and in this respect replaced foot 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...
Expanding the transit system in this manner, of course, does not mean that there should be street railway lines in every street. But it does mean that a new lattice-like transit system should be superimposed upon all of the old and new street systems on an enlarged scale. Instead of through every street, the railway tracks should be located a number of streets apart in each direction, depending upon the character of the transit being considered...