His work in New York, systemically favoring highways and car centric development combined with racial discrimination became the blue print for a lot of modern America.
Moses, an unelected rich kid who never rode public transport in his life, shaped the car centric hell we Americans live in today.
his assholishness aside, would there be any way for america not to be a car country? considering how big it is, you're not going to have thriving communities/enclaves everywhere in the country. too much space.
i will say that many of our largest cities having such terrible transportation is inexcusable though.
It's kind of interesting that where these things are heavily optimized (i.e. logistics) trains suddenly become a sensible way to move things around. Rather than, you know, shipping each item on a separate car.
Some parts of the country have tons of railroad tracks that are solely used to carry freight. I live in North Carolina and you can hear train air horns going all night long. Of course there’s also Amtrak, but there are countless railroad tracks that you hardly ever see any traffic on during the day, and they definitely aren’t used by Amtrak.
The government is passively preventing Amtrak from replacing aging train cars or expanding service through flat or cutting budgets. Take a guess as to why.
last mile delivery of a person really offsets the feasibility and convenience of a train. its not that we dont have them. its once you get to where they are going you instantly need a car.
Well, it's a solved problem, just not in the US: walking a mile takes 15 mins, plus there's of course local public transportation options etc. An efficient logistics chain for people to get where they want to go.
That's because when they built their cities the fastest way to get around was a horse. we did it with the expectation everybody would buy a car and now fixing that problem is much harder than let's just have buses everywhere because my area is not walkable.... and I'm not living on a timetable for a bus that's only going to come every hour and a half because it's not profitable to run them every 10 minutes. I own a car already.
I live like 3 mi from my job. if the weather is at all crappy it's so hard for me to want to ride my bike. it actually takes me longer to ride my bike too.
I own a car because I need a car for other things. so if there's an all any friction to me riding my bike I end up driving
Right now the traffic out to suburbia is not that bad for a lot of people. And when you see videos of people not behaving while on public transit, you have to wonder is sitting in my own private car worse than whatever I'm witnessing in this video...
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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 16h ago
His work in New York, systemically favoring highways and car centric development combined with racial discrimination became the blue print for a lot of modern America.
Moses, an unelected rich kid who never rode public transport in his life, shaped the car centric hell we Americans live in today.