03-20-2016, 09:21 PM
(03-20-2016, 09:15 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Roads were built as a response to the boon of the car. They didn't build a bunch of roads in the hope that people would buy cars.
No. The car would not have been as popular without the roads to support easy automobile travel.
My father grew up in rural eastern Kentucky (Breathitt County) in the 30's. People who lived around him did not buy cars because there were no roads that were fit to be driven on by cars. They did not buy a bunch of cars and wait for the roads to be built.
Suburban living became popular because of the roads that were built that made auto travel into the cities easy. Before that people who worked in the cities lived in the cities and did not need cars to drive every day.
One of the greatest ironies in literary history is the fact that the hero of Atlas Shrugged was a railroad man and the railroad industry benefited more from government assistance than almost any other industry in history.
