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		goatforce5 on Aug 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hyperloop Update: Elon Musk Will Start Developing ... New York City had a series of tubes (pneumatic tubes, that is) connecting various post offices around Manhattan and even to Brooklyn. http://untappedcities.com/2013/03/15/nycs-pneumatic-tube-mai... I was going to say the destruction of it was spearheaded by the automobile companies, but I was confusing that with the fate of the streetcar system in NYC and elsewhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...

astrodust on Aug 13, 2013 | [–]

I'd also read that it was upended by the company supplying delivery vans to the postal service: General Motors.

They could sling a package across Manhattan in minutes, but to drive there, then as now, takes a lot longer.

Jun8 on Aug 13, 2013 | [–]

Chicago had a similar thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company

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