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Transportation mode, World vs USA (jlai.lu)
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[–] arymandias@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago

To quote Not Just Bikes: “the USA wasn’t built for cars, it was destroyed for cars”

Most cities in the US were walkable and public transport oriented, but in the fifties all livable neighborhoods and city centers were bulldozed to make place for parking lots and arterial roads.