It was lobbying, it had little to do with psychology or prehistoric urges or anything like that. Greed of a few mostly. Read up about the world class tram sys

It was lobbying, it had little to do with psychology or prehistoric urges or anything like that. Greed of a few mostly. Read up about the world class tram system in Sydney, bicycle networks in LA and what killed all that. Take a look at all the coal lobbies in Australia. Wars for oil in the Middle East, it just goes on and on.