Hypothetically imagine a mall so large it requires its own internal transportation system what would that be like?
Imagine if said malls were outdoors instead of in-boors, completely stripped of their interior, or strip-malls if you will, and imagine said malls explicitly being built near bus stops or train stations and incorporating large parking lots for vehicle traffic. I can only imagine...
>>2070941An airport
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having a transit system inside a mall doesnt make sense as the stores rely on foot traffic for sales you dont need to move people efficiently like in an airport and building a mall large enough to require one doesnt make sense for the same reason the only time it would make sense is if the mall was spread over two locations or had disneyland style parking
>>2070942imagine instead of parking lots it's housing and parks and you could just walk to the shops or take a tram
Dumb redditards thinking they are smart for making the same trite joke
>>2070944gonna listen to some Dead Kennedys now
>>2070953americans don't understand how commerce actually works because they've been making money from nothing from stonks since the 1920s and just importing shit right to the consoomer's front door from india and china since the 1800s
A camel caravan would be sick. It would be slow enough to window shop and kids could feed the camels
>>2071011sex with camels at the airport...
>>2071012Yuck, leave your weird airport desires out of this. This is all taking place at the mall.
>>2070941Tandy Center in Fort Worth almost got that, but the train was for connecting the parking lots with the mall at the bottom of the office towers instead of travel within the mall. Beyond that, "Welcome to Costco. I love you."
>>2071550where the camel pussy
>>2070941Some airports are that large (such as DTW). Most malls aren't even close.
>>2070941Mall of America I think had those flat escalators.
>>2070956Imagine they just put the mall on the ground floor of apartment buildings
>>2071815There are lots of mixed use areas with housing above retail. These days it's mostly open air but in the 70s and 80s there were many serious proposals for having enclosed shopping malls with connected housing and employment. The idea was that everything you'd need would be contained in a single structure. The problem was the amount of housing needed to support a mall is huge and most people wanted a detached single family home, not a small high rise apartment. Even more difficult was the employment side of things as a mall doesn't have enough jobs to support the amount of housing required to support the mall's retail. Essentially, it requires too many external inputs.The movie Logan's Run is the best example of the 70s vision of self contained "work, live, play" complexes. It even had the intra-mall transit system OP asked about.
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>>2071829>americans invent mixed-use zoning then get mad about it
>>2071923The United States has a population of about 350 million. For any idea you can dream up, there are millions who like the idea and millions who hate it. Just the nature of having a large diverse population. Luckily there's also tons of space so people can find a place that suits their preferences. Too bad there are some who are obsessed with forcing everyone to participate in their particular set of preferences even though it's not the fault of Cletus up in the hills that the elected officials in the city refuse to maintain the sidewalks properly.
>>2071925>diverseyuck
>>2071550The “Fort Worth Subway” was originally for Leonard’s Department Store, and they got some PCC cars from Washington, DC and made them even more Art Deco futuristic. Later mods as shown in your pic made them boxy and plain but one has been restored to its original glory.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/department-store-monorails-are-a-memory-kids-these-days-wont-haveSome big U.S. department stores had these monorails for kids but they’re all gone now.,
>>2071937Radio Shack was never accused of having good taste.
>>2071938Rich's department store in downtown Atlanta had one called the Pink Pig that also went outside onto the roof. Helps that Decembers aren't very cold in that area.
>>2070941If you count outdoor malls, there are a couple in the LA area (The Grove and The Americana) that have trolley systems. They're really just gimmicks though and don't run all the time. Incidentally The Americana has housing as well like >>2071829 mentions, pretty sizeable (and very expensive) luxury apartments though so nowhere close to the population to sustain the mall.
Do these things count as transport? This is what you'd get; they wouldn't give you trains or buses.
It's all so tiresome
>>2071938>>2072032A decent number of Rocket Express monorails have actually survived into preservation. The last one ceased operation in 2007 and only because the mall that housed it was bitself closed down due to the 2007-2009 Recession.
