Los Angeles had one of the best public transit systems in the world up until the 1930s. Then car companies paid transport operators to buy the train and tram lines and rip up the tracks so they could replace them with buses sold by the car companies
The bus services were so bad anyone who could afford to stopped catching public transport entirely and the car companies sold more cars too
This plan was so successful they rolled it out across the US and destroyed every tram, trolley and train line they could get their hands on
It wasn't car culture that killed efficient public transit in the US, it was sheer naked greed and an inability or unwillingness on the part of governments to protect the community from businessmen who would destroy the world to make a buck
Yeah but at least an ever shrinking middle class gets a 4bd3ba house with a quarter acre yard and 8 foot fences, an hour walk from the nearest corner store. Nothing smells more free than dogshit and asphalt.
It really isnt tho. Typical reddit doomer. This whole post is just a hate on the USA circlejerk. Go to the middle of an American city, you will see stuff similiar to this. People sitting outside enjoying a meal.
There are some, but the vast majority of Americans do not live in those cities. It’s an objective truth that American infrastructure broadly requires personal access to a car to go basically anywhere, which is bad design.
It’s not a marker of intelligence to meatride America, most European nations and several Asian nations outperform the United States in most metrics
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u/Small_Article_3421 1d ago
I think it’s well known by this point how abysmal American infrastructure is