tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post4550855033036859448..comments2008-04-20T23:36:20.844-04:00Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-51635354862880687962008-04-20T23:36:00.000-04:002008-04-20T23:36:00.000-04:00Odd to leave out Houston and have so much around Mississippi and Louisiana. Of course they didn't know half of Detroit would move to Houston in the 70s.<BR/><BR/>Nor does the map predict the rise of the glop. Portsmith VA to a bit north of Boston is pretty much one urbanized area, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin are almost a glop. Still some empty quarters between Houston and Dallas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-6359551896530450022008-04-20T14:13:00.000-04:002008-04-20T14:13:00.000-04:00Los Angeles was one of many cities that had a huge streetcar network - it's generally accepted that the conglomerate of GM and Standard Oil and others purchased various streetcar companies for the sole purpose of dismantling them to increase the sale of buses and automobiles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-35528948669788035732008-04-12T14:23:00.000-04:002008-04-12T14:23:00.000-04:00Mark Pisano at SCAG, our regional transportation planning agency, is STILL promising this - only now he calls it a MagLev (for magnetic levitation) system.<BR/><BR/>Same pie in the sky. No reason it wouldn't work, but then, there was a perfectly sound transit system in place until the 1950 -- street cars and interurban rail. Other cities kept theirs - LA was "too modern'tloc2006http://www.blogger.com/profile/08308597463893827495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-31476272014882485302008-04-11T18:50:00.000-04:002008-04-11T18:50:00.000-04:00Oh, how I miss Minnesota....Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127308959156527284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-79270832378555314492008-04-11T17:46:00.000-04:002008-04-11T17:46:00.000-04:00I also just noticed from the map that apparently by 1975 we were to have incorporated New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into the USA...Wutzkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-83164383038758452362008-04-10T12:56:00.000-04:002008-04-10T12:56:00.000-04:00I didn't think Michigan was so hard up in 1975, back when cars from Asia were kind of a joke.<BR/><BR/>Hmm, Salt Lake City instead of Denver, and is St. Louis supposed to be considered central Missouri somehow? (surely not KC)RichMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059448317668966899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-12353979777427467192008-04-09T12:08:00.000-04:002008-04-09T12:08:00.000-04:00I would have thought San Franscisco would have been a rim city (ba-dum ching!)...<BR/><BR/>Prescient to include Phoenix as a major metro area (it's now the U.S.'s 5th largest), but rather dropped the ball on Michigan (last one out turn off the lights), and ascribing the big southeastern metropolis to Chattanooga, not Atlanta.Wutzkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-61405289687385601432008-04-09T00:30:00.000-04:002008-04-09T00:30:00.000-04:00I've always liked the demonym "MinneaPaulitan" to cover all of us who live in the core cities. Just sayin'.Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10572592310882228669noreply@blogger.com