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[-] Silvus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Actually most cities had rail laid out and working commuter trains. The car manufacturers bought them up and purposely ran them into the ground to increase car sales. (Think Twitter) they were run like that.

[-] throwsbooks@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some cities, yes. LA is an example, right? And how they wrecked the street cars.

But not my city. Calgary was built as a stop on the Trans Canadian Railway, and that still exists, and there's an (okayish) light rail train system here that's slowly been built over the years and not torn down. Fully wind powered, too! Edit: our public transit kinda sucks though, I'm not saying we're great. My commute to the office would be over an hour by transit and twenty minutes by car, I'm lucky I work remote.

A majority of North American cities that have grown within the last hundred years (coinciding with cars) were built from the ground up with cars in mind as the primary form of commute.

[-] JamesFire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

But not my city. Calgary was built as a stop on the Trans Canadian Railway

Calgary had a pretty extensive Streetcar network around downtown once upon a time.

https://saadiqm.com/2019/04/13/calgary-historic-streetcar-map.html

[-] throwsbooks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Hey neat!

Just goes to show how history gets erased. Hopefully the green line gets built and we'll have even some of this coverage back.

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