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Romanticizing horses, specifically, is a very rose colored glasses situation. At the turn of the last century, cities were getting overwhelmed by thousands of t
by bobthepanda 1y ago
Romanticizing horses, specifically, is a very rose colored glasses situation. At the turn of the last century, cities were getting overwhelmed by thousands of tons of horse feces, a similar volume of their urine, and the carcasses of overworked horses dropping dead in the street.
- cogman10 1y ago> Romanticizing horses, specifically, is a very rose colored glasses situation. Apologies, I wasn't trying to romanticize the horse aspect. Rather, the public transit and train shipping aspect. In the US, at one point trains were so popular that even rural farms would have small train depots to load up crops on and ultimately ship goods wherever they need to be. You'd even find stores with train station docking. In fact, before the national highway system, pretty much the only way to travel was by train. We've taken a costly step backwards by building out the highway system and moving to semi shipping rather than keeping and expanding public transit.
- wordpad 1y agoRail can't take you to suburbs is basically the main reason this happened.
- 1718627440 1y agoEver heard of trams and busses?
- pasc1878 1y agoLook at South London - train to suburbs is normal
- bluGill 1y agoThe suburb was invented by/for the train. We called the first ones "street car suburbs" for good reason - the rail was why they were even possible in the first place. Cars work better than rails in suburbs (no congestion) and so rails have mostly disappeared, but rails absolutely could work in suburbs again if we invested in making them fast and frequent (which is expensive so we won't)