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Show SUBWAYS FOR RAPID TRANSIT One of the characteristic developments develop-ments of the last few years in city transportation has been the demand on the part of a great many cities for subway systems. Undoubtedly this has been due in large part to the great success from a transportation transporta-tion and financial standpoint of the New York subwaj'. Many prominent citizens from other places after visiting New York have returned home enthusiastic over subway sub-way operation and impressed with the belief that the local railway system sys-tem in their own town should provide pro-vide rapid transit by subway within the center of the city and under important im-portant traffic arteries. The plan naturally nat-urally appeals to the civic authorl- ties and to the citizens who do not realize that the profitable nature of the New York subway is due entire-ly entire-ly to the great density of population and the peculiar topography of the city which compels a great deal of long distance riding, and that in most cities with a distributed popu-lation popu-lation the construction and operation of a subway system as a purely com-merclal com-merclal enterprise is financially im-practicable. im-practicable. IH |
