Transportation Systems of the Heartland

The Heartland shows a "nested hierarchy" of levels from metropolis to village, and the different transportation systems bind these levels together. The presence of the Great Lakes provide a gateway to overseas regions. The system of rivers leading through the region, and especially the Mississippi River, connected the ports of Chicago and environs to mid-America and the South, and other rivers feeding into the Mississippi provide means of transporting goods and people around the region. Roads were developed throughout the region and have been augmented and added to regularly with national and state highways which today transport millions of people and millions of tons of goods around the region. In cities like Chicago, the roads and rail system move commuters into and out of the city every day. The railroads remain important means of moving goods, though they have been supplanted somewhat by the trucking industry, which is more versatile in where it can go. Chicago in particular is a vital link in national air travel as well. The different transportation systems work not only to bind the region together but to serve as routes carrying goods away from the Great Lakes gateway outward in all directions.

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ts visiting the fishing villages as they do now. However, a massive increase in tourism would be catastrophic and might do the sort of harm occurring in Florida with reference to the coral reefs, which have attracted too many people and have suffered damage as a result. 3. Discuss some policy options that are available to both local and national decision-makers that can either help reduce the effects of acid rain or improve public awareness about the problem. What would you do about the acid rain issue if you were in a position to create a policy? In the northeast, acid rainfall is destroying the forests, a problem that is also essentially economic in nature. Industrial pollution causes acid rainfall, and this is not accounted for in the cost of production. Improving public awareness would involve a major public relations campaign to convey the nature and extent of the problem to the public. Addressing the problem begins with reducing the emissions and pollutants that contribute to the problem. A poor approach is that which allows the selling of pollution credits, which only shifts the problem from one place to another. Often even the shift is illusory, since weather systems are closely related so that pollution in
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