> Romanticizing horses, specifically, is a very rose colored glasses situation.

Apologies, I wasn't trying to romanticize the horse aspect. Rather, the public transit and train shipping aspect.

In the US, at one point trains were so popular that even rural farms would have small train depots to load up crops on and ultimately ship goods wherever they need to be. You'd even find stores with train station docking.

In fact, before the national highway system, pretty much the only way to travel was by train.

We've taken a costly step backwards by building out the highway system and moving to semi shipping rather than keeping and expanding public transit.

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wordpad 4 days ago | parent [-]

Rail can't take you to suburbs is basically the main reason this happened.

	▲	bluGill 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The suburb was invented by/for the train. We called the first ones "street car suburbs" for good reason - the rail was why they were even possible in the first place. Cars work better than rails in suburbs (no congestion) and so rails have mostly disappeared, but rails absolutely could work in suburbs again if we invested in making them fast and frequent (which is expensive so we won't)
	▲	pasc1878 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Look at South London - train to suburbs is normal
	▲	1718627440 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ever heard of trams and busses?