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Originally posted by sycamore
After all, it took 36 years to build the Blue Route.
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Not quite. Most of that time was spent arguing over which municipality was going to lose the tax base respresented by the land that would underlay the highway. Nearest the Main Line was the worst.
Interestingly enough, the reason the Main Line is so densely settled with high-income folks (and the tax base so high) is that the area was *created* by the presence of another mass transit corridor: the "Main Line" of the Pennsylvania Railroad. All the towns along the Main Line exists *because* of the railroad, which is still in service today. Unfortunately the traffic flows of the 1880s run perpendicular to today's flows in that area...