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user-inactivated  ·  4124 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America is a country that has forgotten how to walk.

I can't remember where I read it, but somewhere on the Internet I read that car companies had lobbied early in the twentieth century to not have public transportation funded, and because this happened back when cities were just beginning, we adapted and all our cities were built around the assumption of cars.