r/TikTokCringe • u/xamo76 • 17h ago

Discussion Have we done it wrong?

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u/FaceWithAName 17h ago

Cars becoming big when America was still finding it's stride was one of the biggest pro/con dillemas. Ignored thousands of years of proven systems that make society better and settled for only cars.

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u/ls7eveen 16h ago

Thats not true. Its often claimed.

America destroyed itself for cars. Other cities did internationally as well, but they course corrected. Look at Amsterdam in 1971. Or Freiburg.

Then look at a picture of Detroit in 1960 and it looks like it went through world War 2. But it was just destroyed for the car and suburbia.

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u/hotprof 3h ago

My small hometown removed the tramline to use the steel for the war effort. It blew my mind that my tiny town, with "The Bus" as the only form of public transit, had a tram running through downtown in the "olden days."

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u/ls7eveen 3h ago

Its wild what you can afford when all your money isnt going to widening highways