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- Aug 2023
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Lots but the people living in the suburbs continued to work and commute in the cities what's the solution High-Speed Rail and Incredibly 00:08:08 efficient mass transit no dummy cars obviously but it wasn't obvious the obsession with and Reliance on cars that seems uniquely American was manufactured as not a symptom but a feature of the 00:08:20 suburbs
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- With so many people living in the suburbs, there was a new transportation problem as these people had to travel to the city centers to work.
- High speed rail and mass transit lost out over big oil and the auto industry lobby, and this loss resulted in an auto-centric design that shaped not only the American landscape, but the entire world
- The 1956 federal aid highway act created a national highway system, but also provided positive feedback to increase suburban development
- highway construction disproportionately affected minority communities
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