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• DenisM 12y ago
  Perhaps we should embrace this view, and extend it just a tiny bit further: Since the tunnels for cars are already dug up, all we need to do is cover them with concrete slabs, cover the slabs over with asphalt for bikes/pedestrians and vegetation for sitting around, and declare the entire city pedestrian only. The cars can continue to hurry back and forth underground.
  • Apofis 12y ago
    There's some really nice futurist art from the 1930's depicting NYC in 2000. All cars are underground in tunnels under the streets, just like subways are. It's beautiful and the city would be amazing if this happened at some point, which honestly with overpopulation just might in the next 100 years or so.
• cpeterso 12y ago
  After the Great Seattle Fire in the late 19th century, Seattle had the opposite problem of the one illustrated there: the city rebuilt the streets higher than before to avoid flooding problems, but merchants didn't want raise their buildings. So the city streets were 12–30 feet higher than the sidewalks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground