[Aquinasfan]

The roads killed the railways. It's surprising to me that the railways couldn't effectively lobby Congress to kill the highway system.

I hate mass transit and love highways, but I can see an argument against suburban sprawl and fuel inefficiencies. I'm interested in the argument.

[Inspectorette]

It's surprising to me that the railways couldn't effectively lobby Congress to kill the highway system.

Could it be because The Big Three (Ford, GM, Chrysler) bribed, er, lobbied Congress more effectively to promote the highway system? (You could probably throw in U.S. Steel, along with Goodyear, B. F. Goodrich, etc.)

[camas]

i believe FDR had more to do with killing the railroads then the highways did

[E Rocc]

I can see an argument against suburban sprawl

Sometimes even conservatives fall for the idea that "sprawl" is a bad thing, forgetting that it simply represents individuals living as they prefer.

The left objects because dense populations with limited mobility are easier to control.

-Eric

[Old Professer]

AMC was running Anastasia this A.M.; the scenes outside the bedroom window where the jointed, mechanical millipede kept appearing in the dusky twilight, windows aglow, was made real when the long-lost princess boarded the true-life version a few scenes later as though there was only one important place to go on what was then a modern train with aerodynamically-shaped cars and comfortable seats for those who deserved to be transported in such grand style and she was whisked to claim her birthright.

Such memories; fifty years or five hundred, time is always only a bend in the road away.

(Here's comes the well-dressed hare in checkered gilet and flat-brimmed grille-pain chapeau.)