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americanfietser.bsky.social • 194 days ago

If we had never dismantled our robust passenger rail network and proposed the car-centric infrastructure idea today, people would say "Our country is too big for prioritizing private car travel".

Reposted from Frédéric Moreau

Wisconsin 90 years ago.

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tzed250.bsky.social•194 days ago

I read that you could travel from New York City to Chicago by street car once upon a time.

alanehill.com•194 days ago

Almost... It was the interurbans...

zoopy-boi.bsky.social•194 days ago

The Hiawatha extension to Madison is coming hopefully, but it needs to survive the next 4 years. It'll be the first passenger train in Madison in something like 60 years(well, probably 80 by the time it's running lol).

macsquirelera.bsky.social•194 days ago

It’s important to remember that the interurbans mostly sucked and really were not good transportation at all and probably deserved to die

macsquirelera.bsky.social•194 days ago

The actual intercity steam railroads are the ones that matter and had the infrastructure worth upgrading to provide passenger service

liederbach.dev•194 days ago

Maybe one day we’ll rebuild even a fraction of these intercity connections 🥲

americanfietser.bsky.social•194 days ago

Just sad I'll never experience it in my lifetime here. That feels like a 50-100 year pipe dream.

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