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Cars are the worst invention ever
Let’s go on a time journey to before automobiles. Prior to about 300 years ago, man got around on his feet, or horse, or horse-drawn carts. Admittedly, cities were smaller and more walkable, but mainly people didn’t need to undertake a long journey on foot. Villagers rarely travelled to a neighboring village or town. In the cities, people lived close to where they worked. This was long before the evils of suburbia.
When urban populations exploded after the industrial revolution, omnibuses appeared in the cities. Horse-drawn, they supplanted the cart or single horse, capable of carrying twenty or thirty people at a time. The first public transit was born. As we perfected intricate machines and steam power, horses were sent to pasture. Trams and streetcars appeared, initially powered by steam engines and then using the newly widespread electricity. Railroads spread across the country, allowing the non-rich to travel between cities and states. In the city, urban transport became so popular it clogged up the streets, and the first traffic jams appeared. Our cities became choked.
The US decided to sacrifice itself to the car.
In 1863, in London, England, Charles Pearson pioneered the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground rail line. It ran for three and a half miles beneath the streets of the capital, linking major railway stations…