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Old Posted Nov 21, 2014, 2:44 PM
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Originally Posted by volguus zildrohar View Post
There's a long sad history behind the small system Philadelphia ended up with. Surely you've seen maps of old proposals like this, from a Hidden City article:
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The Broad Street Subway was built as a trunk for multiple branches to exactly the areas of the city that you mentioned and some of the infrastructure for those unbuilt routes exists now.
Every time I see this map or any of the other plans/proposals from nearly a century ago, it makes me want to cry a little bit. Oh, what could have been!
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