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SOAC—
The State of the Art Car in
Brooklyn Page 3
SOAC glides
into the southbound express track at Newkirk Avenue station on the
Brighton Beach Line during 1974.
From Prospect Park the Brighton goes into a tunnel. The
Traveler watched the little train slip into the darkness, its lights
sweeping around. the curve as he had seen others so many times before. But
different.
Different because SOAC represents a commitment to
modern transit. Transit was once the luxury of the wealthy, burgeoning
city, its commitment to growth, to the prosperity of citizens who would
work among the canyons of the city but Iive on quiet, tree-lined streets.
This has changed so much, and so much has made it the most fundamental of
necessities-but one this society is reluctant to fully
acknowledge.
If the State-of-the-Art
Car is a demonstration of where our technology has gone, a symbol of our
commitment to the future, The Traveler wondered when this society will
demonstrate its commitment to get where we must go.
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