Excerpt from The Fundamentals of Transit Planning for CitiesNearly a century ago, in the early part of the 19th century, people lived in a man and horse civilization. The railroad had not come. The population of the old town of those days spread out from the business center of the town just as it does today. The only limit to such expansion or to the area included within the town itself was the means of locomotion available for transporting the people to and fro within the town boundaries. Foot and horse locomotion was the only means at hand. The dis tance that the people would live away from the business center was a matter of the time they were willing to spend in travel, to their occupations in the morning and to their homes at night. 'always in the past this time limit has appeared to be about one hour, an hour in and an hour out.Now, with our madness for speed in all things, many people are unwilling to travel much longer than a half hour in or out - and as for walking, they have become so pampered with modern conveniences that to their shame they prefer not to walk at all. But the hour travel in a man and horse civilization meant 3 or 4 miles out for the foot travellers, and 6 or 8 miles for horse travellers. The work ers would walk and the employers would ride.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.