2012-03-16
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quote 02:03:05
“ There would have been three new stations, at the central library, Whitworth Street and the junction of Market and Cross Streets – the latter linked to the Void. Moving pavements were envisaged as well as escalators, connecting the system with Piccadilly Gardens, Oxford Road station and St Peter’s Square. ”
Martin Wainwright in The Guardian: Manchester’s tube train that never was (h/t Chris; thanks).
Just another 1960s utopian scheme that hit the buffers of the early 1970s financial crisis. Ah well.
