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Alternative_Nail1632 t1_iy8asy0 wrote

This article is misleading at best. Interesting that it starts by addressing the loss of railroad stations but fails to mention that the pike extension was built where those railyards and railroad tracks previously existed. Almost nothing was torn down and the neighborhoods were not cut in half, as they were already split by the railroads. The turnpike extension was a natural progression from rail to automobile transportation.

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Prestigious_Bobcat29 t1_iy99iu4 wrote

Shifting from high capacity to low capacity modes of transportation when population projections anticipated higher populations than actually came to pass (which the highways can’t even handle) is malpractice of the planning profession, not a natural progression

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Alternative_Nail1632 t1_iy9qc94 wrote

I tend to agree, but at the time it was part of a progression towards car ownership and a move toward transportation by truck rather than rail, thus the closing of certain lines and the bankruptcy of virtually every railway.

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