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Population Density: Manhattan Jet Dispersal:
“Here is how New York is going to solve its transportation problem. First you’ll have to do away with the automobile altogether. It is a matter of geometries. You take a point and then a line. That’s what a highway is, a line between two points. Well, you have areas which are much vaster than lines, and you have all the volume above the areas, which is space. If you take all the 30 million people of the New York metropolitan area and give them little harnesses with jets and have them put on the proper clothes, and if you send them up in the air to a reasonable altitude, say 10,000 feet, where they wouldn’t need any additional oxygen, all simultaneously, people would be so far apart they couldn’t see each other. That would solve your traffic jams!”
