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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle of city transit development is in reverse of that followed under private ownership and operation of street railway facilities. Expressed in another way, this principle means that city transit should precede the population not follow the population. This is the fundamental basis of a proper transit development. This principle cannot be emphasized too strongly. Only by utilizing this principle as the guiding policy of future transit development can the existing conditions in our large cities be cured...
With the coming of the steam railroad, the population of the city soon increased and congestion occurred within the three to four mile limit. As soon as this happened the omnibus first, and then the horse-car was evolved to supply the need for cheap horse transit...
...this evening at 7 o'clock at the Harvard Club of New York. The meeting will be addressed by several prominent men, among whom are Mr. Howard Elliott, C. E. '81, chairman of the Board of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and Mr. George McAnony, chairman of the New York Transit Association, and will be attended by representatives from all parts of the country. Dean Hughes of the Engineering School will be present while R. C. Hardy, 4E.S., president of the Engineering Society at Cambridge, will represent the undergraduates...
...greatest achievement of the Roosevelt administration was undoubtedly the building of the Panama Canal. For over fifty years we had been guaranteed open transit across the Isthmus, but had been forced repeatedly to intervene, often at the request of Columbia, who owned Panama, in order to protect our interests there. After the failure of the French canal project, the United States undertook the task of the construction of the water route across the continent. As long as there was a possibility that the United States would locate operations in Nicaragua, the Colombian government favored the Panama plan. But after...