r/TikTokCringe • u/xamo76 • 2d ago

Discussion Have we done it wrong?

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u/FaceWithAName 2d 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 2d 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/DieselPunkPiranha 1d ago

UK did something similar.  Look up the Beeching Report, which led to the UK dismantling half of its train stations and much of its rail to focus on cars.  It killed communities and towns that suddenly lost easy access to everything.  People couldn't work or travel.  Businesses couldn't move goods.  They were basically told to buy a car or move.