During the 1800’s, many of the US’s Largest cities were accessable only through the transporation of one’s two feet, unless you belonged to the upper echelon of society. As inner city transit began to develop, access to cities became significantly more atainable for the lower class while cities became less of an interest for the upper class, which led to property value decrease and the unintentional social changes of the city.
With the invention of the ELS- electric elevated railways- for cable cars, the advancement for a new form of transportation proceed with haste. After coal cars began pulling mass transit cars through the tunnels under Lond
on, the implementation of the subway system in New York was adopted in 1904. This led to several changes in the city. Although expensive to expand, this new form of transit created soaring real estate prices and although driving the wealthy out it created new space for tenements and industrial sites. In order to keep the system up and running, it eventually became publicly owned in order to sustain the quality of transportation that the subway systems were giving the city’s population.