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Americans are known for their hostility to transportation systems not involving the internal combustion engine, and one characteristic of American cities is their lack of any rail mass transit, other than Chicago's famous "El" (which works quite well) and the odd surviving street car lines. But there actually were serious proposals to build a mass transit system, modeled on the "El", in New York City and if this had been done it would have spurred other cities to do the same. How would this have changed American cities, particularly New York?
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