Influence of Passenger Rail on the BosWash Megalopolis Corridor ...

<strong>Influence</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Passenger</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> on the BosWash Megalopolis Corridor
Figure 13- Interconnectivity between Metropolitan Areas (Lang, 2006)
As shown, the highways link the two central cities forming mid-metropolitan realms and
extended urban areas (i.e. suburbs).
As the metropolitan regions continued to expand based on the highway development, the
definition <strong>of</strong> Gottmann’s original megalopolis region became outdated. Therefore, in 2006,
Richard Morrill updated the megalopolis corridor based on suburban growth in his “Classic Map
Revisited” shown in Figure 14 (Morrill, 2006).
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