Intercity Transport

Charlie Brisch

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

April 26, 2022


    As cities grew, it became more and more difficult to work right next to the factory. Intercity transport became more and more popular, and it was the first version of public transport. And usually, large transportation was only used to connect cities to one another. Horse drawn carriages were the first version of this, then they evolved into the omnibus, which was also a horse drawn carriage but on tracks instead of just on roads. The issue was that it was horse powered, because the horses had to stop, switch out, eat, etc. Then Frank Sprauge invented the same thing as the omnibus, but electric powered instead, and it could run all day and night because it didn’t have horses that needed to sleep. San Francisco had one of the most brilliant ideas, the cable cars. As San Francisco is a rather hilly city, going up and down the hills was a major issue for the horses. The cable cars are pulled along by an underground cable, and the cable car had a grip on it that would grab the cable car so it could be pulled along the cable. This idea soon spread to other cities, but they couldn’t have the same application due to the large crowds of pedestrians. So in turn, the cable cars moved underground and became a subway. This idea quickly spread as well, and to this day we still have subways that are used. Buses that ran along above ground cables were also a prominent idea, and we still have buses that run along those. Of course, the buses we have today are diesel powered, and are more or less guided by these cables. All in all, the intercity transport used 100 years ago heavily influenced the public transportation/intercity transport that we have in the modern day. 


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