• spacecowboy
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    1 year ago

    You are aware that General Motors gobbled up a lot of the public transportation railway systems in the USA and scrapped them in favour of the fancy new accessible automobiles, yes? This took place between 1920 and 1950. THEN the government installed the interstate superhighway systems. More for the automobile.

    I have said nothing for or against electric vehicles in my comment above, please don’t derail the conversation.

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        1 year ago

        That’s news to me, have a source for it?

        Trollies and light rail systems are public transportation railways. The governments (state or otherwise) prevented other people from creating new rail systems. You can’t just decide to build a train system without approvals.