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submitted 6 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 93 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wanna be even more upset, fellow Americans? Take a look at what we used to have:

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    It was so widespread that I've never been to a small town, in the region I grew up in, that didn't have an old passenger rail station that was repurposed into something else. Your map starts well into the 1900s, my area started being built up hundreds of years before that. Shit my house is almost 100 years older, alone.

    My current small town has THREE, ffs, but no, this rail can only be used for freight, because reasons

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Metro Atlanta's only passenger rail station that still exists, a tiny thing on Peachtree Road in Brookwood (just north of Midtown), was originally a commuter stop on the way to the big, beautiful stations downtown. They were all torn down decades ago.

    I've just realized I don't even know how many traditional train stations (including ancillary commuter ones, but not including streetcars or the modern subway system) the city/metro area even had. It's gotta be dozens, at least.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Phoenix Arizona literally doesnt have a train station at all. You have to go 30 miles / 48km south to a suburb to catch a train and even then your destinations are heavily limited as you can only board a train from there 3 times a week.

    Its a massive building downtown that just doesnt, supposedly because of failed union negotiations 3+ decades ago. Yeah we just let corporations get rid of everything for "efficiency" of cheap roads.

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