FROM FREEWAY TO FREERAY

The car-clogged road grid, using fifty percent of city land, gradually becomes orchard looped with bikeways and solar rail. Shown here is the Pomona Freeway crossing one mile of Boyle Heights.

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3,000-pound cars propel
150-pound people along
concrete and asphalt streets.
Some alleys are depaved
for shared vegetable cropping.
Smaller cars are required.
More bikes are used
for travel within one mile.
Most alleys are removed.
Cars are parked at
neighborhood's edge.
Bus systems are expanded.
All alleys are removed.
Solar bikes are common.
Progressive Street Reclamation
continues as pieces of streets
are replaced by
fruit and nut trees. Rail systems start
interneighborhood transfers.
Bikeways are built
just south of the freeway.
Expanded rail network
is powered by solar
focal collectors.
One lane of solar rail
is installed
on the freeway.
Bikeways reach farther.
Auto traffic is halved.
Solar rail takes half the freeway.
Bikeways are nearly complete.
The most travelled walks are
relaid as brilliant mosaics.

Most physical and emotional needs
are met within walking distances.
Cars are gone.

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