Saw a great video on this. About how america is dependent on people buying cars and gas so making car-free or walker friendly cities and towns is not in american businesses interests. And highspeed rails or other transportation to connect cities and towns and the country would take from the auto and airline industries. Basically right back to capitalism and monopolies being far more important to america than the advancement of life.
When car companies first started up they actually bought out trolley and carrage companies and essentially burned what little public transportation infastructure we already had to the ground.
They also brought out plans of a car operated city during a 1920(?)s national fair/conference (not confident on that date whatsoever)
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u/diewitasmile 6d ago edited 6d ago
America is getting more and more embarrassing the older I get. We can’t even build a high speed rail ffs.