Cities must have freeway systems in order to facilitate movement of traffic; after city reaches certain size, however, it soon becomes apparent that freeways alone cannot solve transportation problem; only solution to this problem is to provide system of balanced transit; thus every large city that has expanded very rapidly -- Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, and many others -- should be planning or building balanced transit system, with railroad rapid transit (including suburban railroad service) as core, augmented by freeways for buses and private automobiles; paper describes various modes of transit and states benefits of balanced transit.
Today's need for balanced urban transit systems
IEEE -- Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum ; 4 , n 12
1967
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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