I recall seeing some famous mix use buildings out in the Pacific Northwest where the shops were on the ground floor and apartments above. Imagine having that i

I recall seeing some famous mix use buildings out in the Pacific Northwest where the shops were on the ground floor and apartments above. Imagine having that instead of some aweful looking building built in the 1970s. As a kid growing up in a very small town, my grandmother use to tell me how she would walk a mile to the train station and ride up to Hartford during the Great Depression. All those train tracks are gone now. It is hard to think we could have had a great rail system that was fast and efficient in this country.