Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoI 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 3 weeks ago
The US was built on steam trains going literally everywhere
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.