I’m always impressed how this point is usually happily ignored in the US. You had a sane public transport network ffs. You destroyed it on purpose to now pretend it’s not possible.
I was driving out to a job site in Montréal this week. On Wellington Street, within the Griffintown neighborhood, a street that was redone less than a year ago is already cratered to the point that tram tracks were poking out; I believe they were killed in the 60’s.
That story again: Montréal traffic so heavy it’s self excavating public transit.
Indeed there was so much bulldozing that you have to remind people that American cities were not in fact bombed out during World War II, we did that to ourselves
In my city museum (itself located in a former passenger train terminal) there is a 1/64 scale model of the city from the 1930s-40s, complete with the full streetcar system with trains that run. Every time I go there, it fills me with rage at what was destroyed.
![[meme] What would cities be like today if we had never demolished our streetcar networks?](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1b55ace7-f4bc-432f-b8e0-abd0fdb9e846.webp){kind=link}
I’m always impressed how this point is usually happily ignored in the US. You had a sane public transport network ffs. You destroyed it on purpose to now pretend it’s not possible.
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I was driving out to a job site in Montréal this week. On Wellington Street, within the Griffintown neighborhood, a street that was redone less than a year ago is already cratered to the point that tram tracks were poking out; I believe they were killed in the 60’s.
That story again: Montréal traffic so heavy it’s self excavating public transit.
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I think I’ve seen some old tram tracks poking through some potholes on Rue de la Gauchetière also.
Indeed there was so much bulldozing that you have to remind people that American cities were not in fact bombed out during World War II, we did that to ourselves
In my city museum (itself located in a former passenger train terminal) there is a 1/64 scale model of the city from the 1930s-40s, complete with the full streetcar system with trains that run. Every time I go there, it fills me with rage at what was destroyed.