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The idea of doing the commercial business of a million people, or one-half a million, with the accompanying passenger traffic, across nine railroad tracks, carries with it a strong implication of the absurd.
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Jacobs critiques the impracticality of managing extensive commercial and passenger traffic across multiple railroad tracks.
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