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As magnificent as New York’s transit system is, its history is full of plans and designs that, for better or worse, have never been implemented. Many of these have been noted in previous chapters. In this chapter, some of the more important, but unimplemented, projects are reviewed, together with some thoughts on how the city might have changed if they had been built. As New York looks towards the future, it is also appropriate to speculate on what role existing and perhaps expanded transit will play.
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Roess, R.P., Sansone, G. (2013). The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men. In: The Wheels That Drove New York. Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30484-2_17
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