I mean we did it to build the hoover dam. The legal mechanisms to do so still exist. The political will doesn’t because mass transit is bad for oil and car manufacturers.
The US of the 1930s is just as foreign of a country as China or Japan today, if not more so. You overestimate the ability of car manufacturers to generate political will. This is a societal-level breakdown in trust in political institutions that goes way beyond transit issues. There are millions of Americans who want nothing more than to burn their government to the ground and rebuild it in their own image. Watch some YouTube videos of city council meetings over almost any issue and you’ll see people who look like they need to be restrained before they pull each other’s hair out.
I mean we did it to build the hoover dam. The legal mechanisms to do so still exist. The political will doesn’t because mass transit is bad for oil and car manufacturers.
The US of the 1930s is just as foreign of a country as China or Japan today, if not more so. You overestimate the ability of car manufacturers to generate political will. This is a societal-level breakdown in trust in political institutions that goes way beyond transit issues. There are millions of Americans who want nothing more than to burn their government to the ground and rebuild it in their own image. Watch some YouTube videos of city council meetings over almost any issue and you’ll see people who look like they need to be restrained before they pull each other’s hair out.