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The USA had to keep the money ball rolling in American Heavy Industry after the highly-mechanized WWII. The USA had: cheap steel, cheap gasoline, and...a bunch of guys who had been risking their lives in mechanized equipment around Europe for a few years! Everybody wanted to buy a car after the war, and this resulted in the modern USA: highly accessible to automobiles first, and the associated car culture.
I'm wondering if the author was unable to find this insight themselves, it seems they are trying to find a pattern among the failures, to explain "why USA has no successful high speed rail."
Maybe in a few more generations, everyone will forget about that war, and then, we can ride from anywhere in Megacity One to Peachtrees tower.
The USA had to keep the money ball rolling in American Heavy Industry after the highly-mechanized WWII. The USA had: cheap steel, cheap gasoline, and...a bunch of guys who had been risking their lives in mechanized equipment around Europe for a few years! Everybody wanted to buy a car after the war, and this resulted in the modern USA: highly accessible to automobiles first, and the associated car culture.
I'm wondering if the author was unable to find this insight themselves, it seems they are trying to find a pattern among the failures, to explain "why USA has no successful high speed rail."
Maybe in a few more generations, everyone will forget about that war, and then, we can ride from anywhere in Megacity One to Peachtrees tower.