Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation
newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml 1 week agoWe just kind of spread out everywhere quickly and made the train locations somewhat irrelevant.
Do you know any US history
Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation
newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml 1 week agoWe just kind of spread out everywhere quickly and made the train locations somewhat irrelevant.
Do you know any US history
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I know enough that it wasn’t so much lobbying as it was advertising to the to the US citizens that made cars more popular. Ford figured out how to make it affordable then a bunch of companies that stood to make money on cars bought up streetcars and shut them down in favor of busses, but that doesn’t actually answer the demise of long distance rail.
newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
The US was built on steam trains going literally everywhere
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
That’s kind of the problem though. They’re not everywhere now. There’s a whole lot of places that are nowhere near a train line.