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- Dec 16, 2019
People kind of glorify the “pre freeway US” but cross-country trips were a shitshow of slow traffic and dead motorists before the freeway system was enacted. And though someone one said you could use parts of it as landing strips it wasn’t ever an official part of the design - at least in the USA.You sure it isn't for trade, and the straight sections are for landing planes? Having them contributes massively to GDP, and "green line go up" is about the most complex economic measure most politicians can handle
It also coincidentally broke the back of the rail barons for the last and final time.