>>877300Yeah, it's an interesting quirk of industrialization that the U.S. mostly has freight trains as the kings of the rail, and extensive personal transport with cars.
Well that, or Detroit and Henry Ford using their position as serious titans of industry and "job providers" (and substantial lobbying, lets not be coy) to, at every turn, lobby for infrastructure that was car friendly. They twisted the entire development of the most productive and dynamic industrial power towards selling their own product irrespective of what was practical or socially wise.
You know, for money.
But then Ford hired Pinkerton men and later mobsters to break up strikes and had a deal with the Chicago mob to leave him and his family alone no matter what, in exchange for giving wiseguys books on paper they just showed up to collect pay checks for.
(he was terrified of kidnapping given the lindburgh affair, maybe justifiably.)
So mass transit is with cars that generate significant pollution, come at considerable expense, and ironically, are no longer the sole purview of domestic production, but are by and large, made by foreign companies or multinational corporations. (which seem to fuck everyone but the stockholders and CEOS of the company wherever they go, no matter what they say, and use the reward of their business like a debutante leading suitors around like the nose with her charms)
