...g and people ere depending on public transportation to get them to ork. As the streetcars tracks expanded east and est, the citys population shifted that ay as ell. People did not need to be in alking distance of their orkplace anymore, but in alking distance of the nearest pickup point of the streetcars Guathier 175. As streetcars increased their length of lines and service, the public increased their choices of residential locations. People ith higher incomes ere able to move out of the central part of cities and into outer areas Guathier 174. This also fostered the concentration of different ethnic groups ithin separate neighborhoods Guathier 175. This separation reversed the intermingling that had been taking place during the late 1800s beteen various economic groups and the different ethnic groups in the cities. Social stratification and sorting of different groups throughout the city as rapidly increased thanks to the streetcar spreading out the cities Guathier 175. As cities spread out in the early 1900s, railroads developed interurban and suburban railroad to connect the outlying areas of the city. As the electric streetcars continued to move the people around the cities, the railroads opened up the first suburbs on the outlying areas. Large industrial industries ere the first businesses to relocate around the peripheral area of the old city thanks to rail easing the transport of goods Gauthier 175. Suburbs that ere railroad dependent created a beads-on-a-string look. People still had to be close to the train station and small communities began developing around each station Guathier 175. The Automobile After the Great Depression the automobile began to be more affordable to the public. Just as the middle-class seemed to go car crazy, the United States found themselves in orld ar II. The American love for the automobile as put on hold until the 1950s. After the ar people ere ready for the changes that ere to come, hoever public transportation as not ready for the changes. During the 50s the automobile became common sight in everyones driveay. Even the television explosion had an impact on public transportation. The thing that finally put public transportation in the back of everyones mind as the development of the expressay and the interstate system. The big igs in Detroit looked to be poised to deliver an affordable product to the U.S. citizens and make automobiles common sight to even middle class driveays, but the Great Depression and then orld ar II delayed the idea to decades. Throughout the 90s public transportation has continued to build. A couple of projects that ere supposed to be neer and better hoever turned out to be orse than older transit designs. The project in Los Angeles for example has been an eye sore to public transportation. There ere budget delays, then construction delays. Part of the subay section collapsed during construction, leaving a large hole in a donton street. Once the transit opened it as filled ith delays and rider complaints. The Los Angeles transit system did nothing to help the image of public transportation. Public transportation shaped the ay e lived during the beginning of the century. Transit made suburbs the place to be. Then as automobiles grabbed the hearts of Americans, public transportation fell out of the public light. Government killed public transportation ith the aid toard the federal highays. Then government never helped out public transportation in the ay it pushed along highays. Public transportation ill continue but it needs the help of federal aid to improve and expand. 5taaaaaa 1h à!ia8i8NormalCJsHaJmHsHtHFiFHeading 2ddiit5CJtaJAiDefault Paragraph Fontdsidz-Bottom of FormadNaCJOJQJJaJ.Ui.HyperlinkBph aDVDNDtMy DocumentstNETtREFERATEtREFERATE.ROtENGLEZAtENG7tUr
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