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This Is How The Founder Of General Motors Died A Penniless Bowling Alley Operator
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Considering all of the damage GM went to do to public transit in the US, I admit I donât feel too bad.
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Weâd designed our early 1900âs cities around public transit, you can look up the photos of old streetcar networks.
The sprawl didnât really kick in until post WW2, and then continued to get worse once the âwhite flightâ started.
GM exacerbated it dramatically by buying out a lot of those streetcar networks, running them into the ground, then selling cities their busses.
The auto industryâs pushing also helped kick off the Interstate Highway System and we never went back.
I agree that itâd be a monumental task, but living somewhere now with a mostly solid public transit network (Portland OR) I canât imagine ever going back to a car-centric life.