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this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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They did keep and expand on the rail routes! The US had an awesome rail network, including extensive passenger rail, until roughly the 1950s.
We still do.
Who is John Galt?
Yup, large automakers bought up a lot of rail lines, especially local inter- and intracities, and tore out the tracks as part of the highway program. My hometown had extensive tram lines (and a halfway built subway that we ran out of money for in the 20s) that got ripped up when I75 got built.
A lot of cities also just did this of their own accord, partially to enforce segregation and redlining. Awful harder for black and brown people to get to your Rich White Neighborhood if there's no train or bus service to easily take them there.
Americans aren't car brained, they're trapped in a system they didn't build and can't control.
A distinction without a difference.
A mouse raised in a cage will be cage-brained.
Too many USAians can't imagine life without driving a car, the same way that mouse can't imagine a forest.
How do you expect someone to imagine life without a car, when they live in an area where you have to drive three miles to get to the nearest store, and there are no sidewalks or bike lanes?
Can you really shame the caged mouse for being unable to imagine a forest?
Not to mention that they were able to run the new interstate highways right through Black neighborhoods.
Who framed Roger rabbit?
That's atrocious.
Large automakers built privately-funded highways? I didn't know that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
Who framed Roger rabbit
I think we all know who.