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> The US is car dependent specifically because of the choice the government made to move people out of cities. My grandpa told me about this. Government troops
by tivert 3y ago
> The US is car dependent specifically because of the choice the government made to move people out of cities.
My grandpa told me about this. Government troops driving him and his family out of their tenement apartment at bayonet point. Marching them, weeping, to a tract home in a suburb with a car in the garage. No one wanted to go, and they all wept for weeks. My grandma was home-bound for years because she refused to step into one of those infernal automobiles, and government forces had bombed all the trolleys. The 1950s was a a very traumatic time for America.
- ch4s3 3y agoYou know eminent domain for highways and “slum” clearing were real things that happened? There were literally bulldozers crushing peoples’ homes in some cases. And as for the slim clearing in NYC, people weren’t driven anywhere the government just told them to fuck off. But the policies I’m referring to are around federal home lending programs that only lent money for suburban developments, the construction of interstate highways, paying for “slum clearing” in the 1950, and so on. But why bother knowing anything about history…