Alexander McGill - Intracity Transportation

Alexander McGill 

IHSS B 

Intra City Transportation


    With cities growing at a massive rate, and jobs in cities becoming more and more popular, people needed a public transportation system. Before the 19th century, the only transportation was a horse drawn carriage, or some kind of horse drawn vehicle. Now, there could be things like steam railroads, and electric streetcars. The Omnibus was an invention that was implemented in the 1820s and 1830s, and was around for several decades. There was also the common horsecar that began in the 1850s and transported millions of people. The steam railroad was an important invention to transport people from far distances, like from state to state. Unfortunately, it was hard to implement these trains into cities. They were extremely loud and had tons of steam and smoke that the residents could not stand. The steam trains were replaced with the electric ones, but those were not very useful as well, with the only time it was used successfully in San Francisco. It was in fact, the electric streetcar, that was the ideal public transportation vehicle. By the 1900s, the United States was only 1 percent horse powered. The more the United States advanced, the better urban transportation advanced. Subways were opened, in order to not congest city streets. The first ones were opened in London, and then later in New York.  When automobiles became more and more popular, buses became more popular. And after WW2, Dwight Esienhower opened interstate highways, which allowed an easier commute to a city, even if you lived far away. Now, intra-city transportation is mostly buses and subways, with the monorails being a new invention as well, but not widely implemented so far. In certain cities, it is almost impossible to live without a car, but in others, public transportation is extremely advanced and lets residents travel throughout the urban area more efficiently, and it is also good for the environment. 

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