Drove by yesterday and wondered if there were still any shops inside. Went there in the mid '00s while at Berks, back before all those new strip malls stole the thunder.
That's understatement. You'd need electronic and/or hydraulic infrastructure at every intersection. It would have to be powerful enough to raise and lower quickly and durable enough to operate thousands of times a day. Then you need the ongoing expense of continued maintenance or they end up like Metro's escalators.
I saw this at a museum up in Maine and it reminded me of DC and the folks always asking about the old fire call boxes. I'm not 100% sure that he ones that used to be in DC were the same, but I imagine these are pretty close.
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Drove by yesterday and wondered if there were still any shops inside. Went there in the mid '00s while at Berks, back before all those new strip malls stole the thunder.