New geographies . goodsor for driving. The roads arenever crowded (Fig. 90), andwhere they are well made, it isa pleasure to drive over them. Transportation in a large city is a verydifferent matter. In spite of the factthat each building holds so many people,many persons live too far from theirplaces of work to walk there. Streetcars, therefore, carry many of them. In the largest cities the distances areoften too great even for riding on streetcars. They go slowly andcannot carry half of the peo-ple, even though they runonly a minute apart. Thisis especially true in themornings, when tens of
New geographies . goodsor for driving. The roads arenever crowded (Fig. 90), andwhere they are well made, it isa pleasure to drive over them. Transportation in a large city is a verydifferent matter. In spite of the factthat each building holds so many people,many persons live too far from theirplaces of work to walk there. Streetcars, therefore, carry many of them. In the largest cities the distances areoften too great even for riding on streetcars. They go slowly andcannot carry half of the peo-ple, even though they runonly a minute apart. Thisis especially true in themornings, when tens of thou-sands of persons start fortheir places of work, at aboutthe same time, and in theevenings, when they returnhome. In great cities, therefore,like New York, Chicago, andBoston, railroads are builtover the streets. These arecalled elevated railroads (). They carry great num-bers of passengers, the trainsrunning every few minutes; yet the ele-vated trains, like the street cars, areoften greatly Fig. 90. — Driving on a country road. INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, AND GOVERNMENT 73 To meet the needs of trans-portation further, in New York,Boston, and some other cities,electric railroads, called subways,have been built in tunnels dugunderground (Fig. 92). Theyeven run under rivers, and carrythousands of passengers everyday. Thus, it happens that in someparts of New York there maybe an electric car in the street,a train directly overhead, audanother train directly under-ground, all filled with people, andrushing along as fast as they canin the same direction. In the near fixture, many moretunnels for carrying passengersand freight will have to be builtin the great cities. This will benecessary, because even now someof the streets are so crowded with street cars,wagons, carriages, and automobiles, that thesecan scarcely move at all (Kg. 93) ; and footpassengers find it diflBcult and dangerous tocross the streets.
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