Asha Elizabeth Weinstein about Boston transportation development from 1890 to 1925. Very interesting, Search the link. She is at one of my alma maters, if her bio is up to date. Great work.
This period is from the end of the long and beginning of the great Depressions. Boston is unique because even then they were digging like moles having started subways early.
During the 1920 period Boston knew they were in big trouble regarding city transportation.
As an aside:
In 1923 a downtown department store had a popular, and monopoly, radio station. Just as this dissertation ends, a commercial broadcaster arrived in downtown Boston.
In 1890 New York was just beginning to perfect the overhead wire for tracked cars, still clogged but gaining in efficiency.
I will look for the reference of the horse flu, but read it. The horse flu epidemic around 1870.
New York was being driven by the international cable in an early instance, the telephone in the next and commercial radio hits.
During these phase changes, we undergo the re-calculation affect. This piece about Boston goes into that issue very nicely.
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