
Public Transportation: Moving Us Forward
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson
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American inventor alfred el beach has been granted permission to build a pair of underground, punstale tubes beneath the bustling thoroughfare. The project was already shot down by the city's biggest political influencer, tammany hall power broker william boss tweed. Beach and his crew worked furiously and in secrecy for 58 days, excavating under one of the city's busiest arteries. In 18 70, he unveiled his clandestine project, the beach pneumatic transit system,. powered by the same vacuum force that would have driven his fictional mail tubes. It runs underneath broadway from warren to murray street, a distance of only 312 feet. As it doesn't really go anywhere, riders
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