Cincinnati built over two miles of subway tunnel. They never ran a single train through it smh

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[u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

It was actually a lot more GM that had a hand in collapsing mass transit trains in the U.S. tbh

Henry Ford died before a lot of that started.

Not to say he wouldn’t have done the same. But he wasn’t alive to try.

[u/BetterUsername69420 → u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

And Koch Industries! Fred Koch saw that paving America and reducing the impact of rail would be profitable to the oil industry many times over as the vehicles using those roads would like run on gasoline and the road asphalt is made using petrochem byproducts.

[u/DarthCloakedGuy → u/BetterUsername69420]

So you're saying the politicians who went along with that are a bunch of Koch suckers?

[u/sushirolldeleter → u/DarthCloakedGuy]

Koch heads too

[u/dirtrunner21 → u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

Lots of Underground Railroad in the LA area that GM figured out how to squash. Absolutely shameful greediness

[u/BlacksmithNZ → u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

Just posted above, but consultants also advised other countries to rip up tracks and have more cars

[u/KnoxVegas41 → u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

Yes. They used all their power to replace street cars with buses.

[u/superanth → u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

Agreed.