Give Yourself the Green Light (1954)

Advocacy film produced to garner public support for the creation of the Interstate Highway System.

[@ianmortensen1844]

This film was the original "pls bro just give me one more lane bro"

[@BuzWeston]

"The expressway speeds over a densely populated area of Brooklyn without disturbing life below." What they forget to tell us is that the plan instigated by Robert Moses decimated entire neighborhoods in order to build the expressways. These areas never recovered from the destruction.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

David Peterson - And the Gowanas Expressway (also known as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) was a parking lot at most times by the turn of the 21st century.

[@bobbyheffley4955]

This helped contribute to NIMBY.

[@DTD110865]

@@bobbyheffley4955 And NIMBYism made things even worse.

[@water435]

Not to mention the ungodly amounts of noise pollution and the giant fucking highway that displaces dozens of city blocks worth of buildings. "Without disturbing life below" my ass

[@bmw803]

​@@water435 For sure. But, remember, it's from a driver's point of view here.

[@thetimelapseguy8]

This aged like milk

[@bruhbutwhytho2301]

No, at least milk was good at the beginning, that has always been terrible.

[@rollingrecords9019]

I work on engines of all types and I'm glad for the roads. Eisenhower I believe started road building for times of travel for war and security I kinda I kind of like that is is the same. Here is an excerpt he bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.” At the same time

[@imnottariq3621]

@@rollingrecords9019 The problem is that these highways completely gutted the downtown areas of most major American cities along with the endless need for surface parking required for all the cars. Because of this, public transit ended up being a distant afterthought.

[@tj-co9go]

I just love the film. It is unintentionally hilarious. The over-the-top panoramic shots, the dull dramatic voice, the orchestral music, the cheesy script, just perfect.

[@LS-Moto]

Its a very typical 1950's propaganda filming style. The style is literally no different from soviet propaganda or modern north korean propaganda. The only difference is the message.

[@tj-co9go]

@@LS-Moto yeah, exactly

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

@@LS-Moto North Korea: praise the leader! General Motors: praise the car!

[@macosx10.7lion4]

@@amadeosendiulo2137 1950s cars are more useful and better looking than North Korean leaders.

[@jripule]

You are unintentionally hilarious. The people who made this knew exactly what they were doing.

[@thienphucn1]

GM recognize the problem of congestion, but their solution of building more roads only worsen the problem.

[@ridafakih8709]

This. It should come as no surprise that starting with the problem and building it out as if its the solution just results in a much larger problem. At least they were able to get rich, I guess. 🤦

[@floofdoq2460]

That's kinda the point, since they can sell more cars

[@chfgn]

When you’re the problem, it’s time to start manufacturing propaganda to shift the blame to something else. ANYTHING else.

[@stokepogue]

1:46 'We're running out of roads. We didn't dream big enough.' More like we didn't 'nightmare' big enough

[@DTD110865]

The nightmare is the result of our refusal to build the roads we need.

[@tomaszmusia228]

​@@DTD110865 The nightmare is public transport and walkability we didn't get

[@DTD110865]

@@tomaszmusia228 The nightmare is any transport we didn't get.

[@Joe-es3jg]

@@DTD110865 roads/car dependent infrastructure typically dont make much money, or even loses money, so when its all built on debt... well you might get where im going. higher taxes, perpetually bad/dangerous roads, poor towns/cities, extreme isolation, boring suburbs that promote staying home that contributes to obesity/mental illness/depression/anxiety. also hinders childhood development and independancy. cars are amazing inventions, but the infrastructure built for them is a cancer on america. not even really a political thing, its just bad for literally everyone except the rich i guess. this video is straight up propaganda. many places are expanding lanes, and its already pretty proven that does not help, it worsens traffic and is extremely expensive.

[@DTD110865]

@@Joe-es3jg Holy shit! You're blaming cars and better roads for thing they have nothing to do with, more than most anti-highway zealots. Sorry, but improved roads make life better. Did you know that suburbs pre-dated cars? You might as well blame the trains and the trolleys for the same conditions you blame on cars.

[@PantherGeek7]

“The car companies that made this piece of propaganda got everything they asked for and more, and it didn’t solve any of the problems mentioned in this video.” - Not Just Bikes

[@randomcube999]

"Wake up sheeple! There's a better way forward than car-dependency." :D

[@packr72]

GM played a big part yes, but the fact is that streetcar and interurban systems were already at an unfair advantage. Roads and gas received subsidies, trolley's did not. Trolley companies had to pave the streets and plow them during winter. They needed government permission to abandon unprofitable lines. The kicker came when the Public Utility Holding Act of 1935 became law. The power companies had to sell the "unregulated" trolley lines, most died off without GM's help.

[@Texaca]

... that's interesting, I never knew that about Trolley and Power companies. 🤔 I assumed those were built for Municipalities and operated by them or companies they contracted with. Are there any documentaries on that subject. I'm sure the demise of Trolleys 🚎 was accelerated by the Corporatocracies, aka GM, Standard Oil and Auto Industry, and their Influence on policies by Legislative and Municipal officials.

[@BrianMacMusicVideos]

"It can't carry our Growing Greatness"

[@_doodles01]

Incredible. They claim to have run out of roads a mere 20 years after cars became accessible to the general public. Perhaps cars were never an efficient means of travel to begin with.

[@MrPieguyDaBoss]

Anyone else here from Not Just Bikes?

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Me! There are, as expected, many carbrains in this comment section lol

[@tulparturk7984]

Me too

[@TheAmericanCatholic]

Yes

[@ilikeliving688]

Me

[@skeetrix5577]

I can't believe I watched the entire video what am I doing with my life? btw the B1M also copied footage of this video in their video called something like "why America is tearing down it's highways"

[@ThomasDeLello]

At 8:45 on the time dial it shows local traffic congestion impacting the logistics of wholesale producers just to underline the impact that it had on the economy. The wholesale produce business was the business that my father and his whole family was in. The irony of that was that it was the Interstate System that made it possible for Supermarkets to put "middle man" type businesses like my father company out of business...!

[@lestersabados1306]

He sold wooden dildos, so what did you expect?

[@lestersabados1306]

nui

[@therealxunil2]

Funny... "By 1975, they say we'll be driving 85 million." According to the Highway Stats report for 1975, the number was over 132 million. Yes I am a nerd.

[@crutler]

I looked that up too. And 1995. 201 million. 2018 there’s almost 275 million

[@trollwaffenunit1garrison784]

nobody back then anticipated the sudden uncontrolled immigration increase, so that's why that prediction was off

[@bmp456]

So many bad ideas that ruined the American landscape packed into one tacky 1950s video.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

But presented as a success. Pure propaganda.

[@user-by2io7zv2t]

If only we could have the freedom to walk and bike. Unfortunately, the supermarkets are way too far away, the wide streets are dangerous, uncomfortable, and hot to walk and bike along, and the public transit is terrible. We dreamt too big.

[@kamil7307]

"If only we spent this unbelivable profit repairing even a small part of damage done by our greedy industry instead of putting it on the taxpayers back to cover for stuff we sold them in the first place. Making stuff that becomes obsolete in shorter and shorter timespan. Such power to change our home planet for better while making a big technologic leap. Today we learned on our past mistakes and it is imperative that we strive to improve." Not a single car manufacturer, Ever.

[@robertglenn5398]

Robert Moses, "a man who knows his business?" (11:50) Shit, this asshole single-handedly destroyed the Bronx by carving an ugly swath through former neighborhoods that defined a once decent burrough and damned near destroyed Manhattan with his plan to build three expressways thorough the city. Can anyone today imagine Soho with an eight lane ribbon cut through it? The man was fucking nuts!

[@robertglenn5398]

Ah, come on now, Ockie. NYC is the best place on earth if one enjoys the full dose of living. I believe all under the age of 30 need live there for at least 2-5 years if not for an entire life. Anyway, for those returning to any other place in the country after living in NYC, there isn't a damned occurance, event, situation..whatever that can bother them. New York toughens and smartens one up real quick.

[@johnnyfarout]

Happy Americans sitting endlessly in traffic jambs on their way to a fruitless future of nightmarish heavy metal dreams and nuclear doom .

[@asteverino8569]

I really notice how GM wanted to keep selling more cars. This smells a bit.

[@billthompson2478]

Is it any wonder that Walt Disney's vision of the future in the 1950s was an extensive network of elevated monorails and Peoplemovers?

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Bill Thompson - October 27, 1966. I just watched that video about his never-to-happen vision of EPCOT at Walt Disney World being a community of 20k people. Disney died less than 2 months later.

[@caninedogma3647]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@tajhilden1594]

Most ironic piece of film ever created.

[@hjuugoo4416]

so glad i live in Europe

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Sadly some of this shit DID come from us because of campaigns like this one. Even communist states wanted to be car "futuristic" 🤢

[@themx83]

60 years later and our roads are STILL this bad!!!!

[@JDAbelRN]

Have you heard the news? Too many people and one person in each car. People are selfish, and will not carpool. You reap what you sow!

[@DTD110865]

@@JDAbelRN More like too many people stopping too many roads.

[@bmp456]

Induced demand. The only solution is to provide alternatives to driving and building walkable neighborhoods.

[@DTD110865]

@@bmp456 Bullshit on your induced demand claims!

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

@@DTD110865 Fuck cars.

[@wjksea]

I don't know how you can argue that... It's obvious to anyone living in a city...a multi-billion dollar interstate is built and the developers follow billing the public in a large part to extend miles of pipes and wires to sparsely populated areas consuming over time thousands of square miles of once productive farmland.

[@ormaybenot]

i came from adam something

[@sercancelenk7131]

Only way to solve traffic congestion is to scrap automobile infrastructure.

[@Christian-fd2ct]

After watching this movie I must inform you about the fact that the only way out of this is one more lane of greatness!

[@MegaTmarshall]

GM purchased and closed the efficient trolley / subway system that once existed in LA to enhance the sales of their automobiles. It's as simple as that!

[@JDAbelRN]

It is not as simple is that! Not every small city town nor village can afford that! Even LosAngeles would be a greater nightmare if the freeway system never existed! People are too lazy to walk a few blocks to catch a train bus trolley or subway. THE subway in LA is a waste and underutilized and tremendous white elephant, just as I predict the new si called hi speed train will a waste, underused, waste of money and like not be ready to use until 2050. You're a fool.

[@raybin6873]

Firestone tire and other companies were in on that...

[@DTD110865]

@@raybin6873 Bullshit on both.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

@@raybin6873probably add in Standard Oil or whatever contemporary counterpart…

[@jamesmcgrath1952]

Yeah, now all those new roads from then are now as bad as what they replaced.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Pot holes , fix one three more spring up.

[@johnbockelie3899]

So many classic cars on this.

[@DTD110865]

Because we stopped trying to improve them

[@stained6202]

@@DTD110865 What do you even mean by that? Cities can't afford to keep repairing roads. It's more expensive to repair a road than to make one most times.

[@DTD110865]

@@stained6202 Refusing to maintain, improve, and build roads has created more traffic jams and air pollution.

[@可口可乐02]

Its 2024 and traffic in America today is worse by a long shot

[@AaronTheHarris]

It's amazing how entitled people became after viewing this video. Asserting the ability to have to drive and park their automobile in every corner of every city when alternatives for getting around existed for hundreds of years.

[@donmoore5716]

Build more roads so General Motors can sell more cars! lol

[@musicdev]

I love how car companies destroyed all alternative transit methods and then GM spends the entire video blaming our government for car infra being bad. Incredible.

[@astucky77]

Wow, never thought I'd hear Americans talking about the wonders of taxation to build stuff. Times sure have changed. It's funny though, what hasn't changed, is people are still in traffic, whether it's two lanes of twenty.

[@abbyasta]

I miss driving my '50 Chevy on bad country roads like these with bias ply tires, 6 volt headlights, and no seat belts! Good times!

[@crankychris2]

Camel cigarettes and 'Trucker's Dots', made high balling what it is. When your slamming a 40 year old Peterbuilt at 81 mph, you never lift your right foot... For nothing, except to score.

[@inkey2]

my dads plymouth had no radio, no rugs, no seat belts, no AC, no power brakes, no power steering, no automatic transmission. We took 1000 mile trips in that car. It was like being in a stage coach.

[@macosx10.7lion4]

@NewPaper Ok zoomer.

[@skeetrix5577]

@NewPaper they know how to write better than you

[@billthompson2478]

They cared about driving safely. There's a subtle difference. Twenty years previous to this, cars were little more advanced than horseless carriages. Post-WWII, technology was advancing by leaps and bounds, but it wasn't quite to the point where accident speeds would usually kill you. Safe driving was still more important than belts and bumpers and crush zones and airbags and ABS. Even today, mandated safety equipment only does any good if you actually hit something. So, don't hit anything.

[@ayyyyph2797]

At this point America is more concerned about selling cars than giving folks viable mobility

[@plantcake_]

I don’t agree. The average sedans top speed in the 1950s (when this video was made) was 80 - 90 mph If a car hit someone at 50 mph the person could have had a 90% mortality rate. These were not just horseless carriages. For example, in 1945 11,000 out of 28,000 fatalities, were pedestrian fatalities. Also many safety measures were in cars including airbags 1951.

[@PhaQ2]

85 million by 1975, they were fairly close, 94.5 million. 134 million in 2008.

[@Ellieyolo26]

thanks for ruining our country GM

[@therealxunil2]

According to Highway Statistics 2011 (latest available): 241,067,888 registered privately-owned vehicles (cars, trucks, buses). 3,710,291 publicly-owned vehicles. 244,778,179 total That does not include 8,410,255 registered motorcycles.

[@michaelmccarthy4615]

Now I bought an electric car to add to my car collection...

[@tagaEskinita]

I'd give anything to live in those days. drive the cars of the era. Get impaled in the steering column. But its all worth it

[@sergiesnipe616]

We today are producing more cars that than of women having children.

[@operator91210]

Your making that sound like it's a bad thing

[@thisaintmikel]

@@operator91210that’s cuz it is

[@rollingrecords9019]

President Eisenhower: Bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.” - Fun Fact

[@milfordcivic6755]

Back when people used to know how to stay out of the left lane and merge!

[@jasoncarpp7742]

What I find incredible is that when you consider that society in general at the time this video was taken didn't care about driving safety.

[@tonymostromable]

it was also when normal people smoked themselves to death and threw litter all over the streets...weird.

[@RiversRun597]

I always love how they show traffic jams and talk about the American Dream backfiring and how terrible it is, and then propose a solution involving yet MORE cars and roads! Hilarious.

[@shaider1982]

Adam Something made a parody video of this.

[@pcno2832]

6:50 No place to park, but at least she has self-dimming headlights. That could have ended in a serious brawl.

[@wjksea]

Yes, we did but corporate marketing is an extremely powerful tool. People were sold the idea. To deny this is to suggest corporations are stupid inefficient wasteful entities by their spending literally millions of dollars selling people on the idea that they need and want their products to be happier.

[@simonknight6329]

Where was this film being shown and seen? Was it intended for Saturday morning cinema - B movie stuff before the main feature?

[@daveassanowicz186]

Public school classrooms

[@simonknight6329]

@@daveassanowicz186 Really? That's shocking.

[@MofoMan2000]

This whole video is just one gigantic "oof". How naïve we were 70 years ago...

[@wjksea]

Such an incredible taxpayer subsidy to corporations and complete socialism for the auto industry and commerce in general, billions and trillions of dollars to build roads for business to profit, private non-democratic corporate government that as with any pyramid scheme ultimately benefits a few off the backs of the many.

[@DS.J]

This aged so bad :(

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

This was bad at the beginning. This is just pro-car propaganda.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

@NewPaper I'm an anti-communist and my country, Poland, won against communism so now I want freedom and not car-centrism! The commies were actually car-brained as well, there are lots of wide roads in my cities because they actually wanted be "better" (worse) than the USA. Fuck communism and fuck cars.

[@RandomGal_]

@newpaper8579 communism is when good urban development let's not forget that the highways in the US were heavily subsidised and paid for by the government, which would be considered socialist by many conservatives

[@wjksea]

GM bought up mass transit it and let it crumble then GM filled the streets with GM buses and eventually weened most people off of them and into the automobile. Seattle is now choked with traffic and mass transit now 60 years behind and much more expensive to get the right of way is finally being built but not without a fight from profit hungry corporations. This is the failure of private non-democratic corporatocracy. It's greatest efficiency is enriching a few off the backs of the many.

[@therealxunil2]

They did. It's fact. I'm sorry if you worked for GM and feel bad about that fact, but revisionism will not change the fact that GM owned a share in a company that purchased and closed streetcar lines in many major cities in the US. Now I am done talking about this.

[@DTD110865]

Actually, I'm not wrong. Southern Pacific DID own Pacific Electric, and I wasn't the one who said anything about an old LA subway system. Ted Marshall was guilty of perpetuating that myth. Actually, PE did build a subway station in Hollywood, and drove a few other lines underground. Go look up "Pacific Electric Subway - Toluca Portal" for starters.

[@DTD110865]

@dodge09challenger No, they were decaying before the interstate highways.

[@johnkrols7974]

"This is the American" nightmare....

[@crutler]

American horror story.

[@heastner]

Adam Something (Else)

[@DreamPhreak]

"free flowing channels of concrete and steel" 😞

[@naturelover2238]

Thank you, General Manager of General Motors, Generally Geniuenly ruined my life. Thank you i am so honoured to drive my Generally General Motors Automobile to the General Walmart to stock up on supplies to fix my Generally unreliable General Motors Automobile.

[@therealxunil2]

You are correct, to my knowledge. GM had a hand in shutting it down also because they could then sell more buses.

[@7GtwNYkHYs]

Big Oil Propaganda

[@konradkaranowski6553]

Maybe it's a fucking propaganda that made USA car dependent. But hey! At least the music is great!

[@DTD110865]

@mistersmith6000 The actual decline of trolleys began after World War One, and this is due to the overhead wires, and other cost and safety concerns. For the record, while some trolleys were replaced by buses, others were replaced by subways. And yes, Amtrak did lobby against the high-speed rail project between Tampa and Oralndo, because it was intended to run along the median of Interstate 4, but that wasn't the only reason it wasn't as good of an idea as you might think.

[@Jackinacox]

HAHA! Good joke, must be working for GM

[@jdhatl]

"the aroused American people"

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Aroused by the automobile 🤢

[@TheBeatlesShow]

Why would anyone trust a film telling you to invest in car infrastructure that was made BY a car company?

[@selflesssamaritan6417]

They DID everything to improve traffic flow, but not urban density and better mass transit.

[@THEUTUBEVIDZ]

What if some people went back in time to 1954, here, and drove the 2011 chevy silverado and 2012 chevy comaro? Wouldnt the police pull them over? lol

[@johnbockelie3899]

How about that? , the Seattle via duct was included in this film. The via duct since has been torn down.

[@Jackinacox]

Hello Propaganda!

[@chess1458]

@8:15 OH HELL NO

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

If only there was a way to go shopping without having to park…

[@heatherrussell8255]

I'm from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, but find your roads and highways films most interesting! You Americans were really really progressive in this area compared to us in NL. A good three decades ahead of our time. Thanks for these informative social history/transportation history videos. Very much worth watching!

[@JDAbelRN]

Thanks Mr Canadian. MAss transit is only cost effective and makes sense in large heavily populated areas, like your Toronto, and I greatly admire your system there 😀

[@inkey2]

I don't think you would like the cost of Health Insurance here

[@thetimelapseguy8]

@@JDAbelRN that's just plain wrong. All of America was built on trains, even when population density was much lower, it was even profitable unlike roads! Too bad what's left is only a shadow of the former network.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Yet now building car-centric spaces is a conservative bullshit. Fuck cars.

[@DTD110865]

Because we didn't give them the green light.

[@shanemichael6517]

Lol! Love this video! If they only knew that they needed even MORE roadway to accommodate the needs of the 80’s, 90’s and well into current day. They would be beside themselves if they knew how long we all sit in traffic these days.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

They did not need more lanes. What you need instead is public transport.

[@mostlycolin]

so here's where it all went wrong

[@DTD110865]

@mistersmith6000 No, you have to realize that's a load of garbage. The increase in highway spending and decline of trolley had nothing to do with "powerful conservative pressures." They had to do with the increase in population and the fact that the roads of previous generations couldn't handle the traffic of the period. Plus, there has been plenty of sprawl without improved roads, so don't blame it on road improvements.

[@DTD110865]

LA didn't have much of a subway system. The trolley system they had was bigger, and that was owned by Southern Pacific Railroad, and they were not as efficient as anti-car fanatics want you to think.

[@tonymostromable]

thanks for the truth vs. the usual whining propaganda that's out there.

[@KattalystFr]

Cars ruined everything.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Fuck cars.

[@DTD110865]

@SAMROSS55 Yeah, hundreds of unfinished highways and thousands of traffic jams.

[@hm3426]

Yes, good traffic flow is good for the country. I should know for I drove tractor trailer for 23 years here in NJ.Nj had traffic jams in every corner.Now, as of 10 years ago NJ have been working on all traffic jam points and they have been doing a great job even before the rep governor came in as a governor..

[@hep2jive]

guy on tracker looks like benny goodman

[@CXLVII]

I want to see the like/dislike ratio on this video 😂

[@BuzWeston]

Having grumbled in my previous post, it is important to add that the primary message of the video is just as true today. Everyone wishes mass transit could work. But people like the independence that cars give them. We must face this and build our communities to maximize efficient traffic flow.

[@JDAbelRN]

Yes, even idiots in NYC got to have a car, though makes no sense given no parking, horrendous street traffic, insurance costs, lost production secondary to traffic jams,. Why would anyone own a car in NYC is beyond me other than selfishness. Especially when you have a bus stop or subway within 10 minute walk that would take you anywhere you needed to go. If you need to go out of town take a train out to long Island or take amtrak.

[@DTD110865]

@@JDAbelRN Try standing around waiting for a bus that never comes during off-peak hours and then see if you convince me driving in NYC is never necessary. And MTA' s Bus time app is a useless piece of shit!

[@WinterGamesYT]

who narrated give yourself the green light?

[@misterfunnybones]

Joseph McCarthy?

[@WinterGamesYT]

@@misterfunnybones the senator? he seems like a complete asshole

[@therealxunil2]

This message was actually intended to reply to "themamagoatshow"'s question regarding current statistics, not your comment.

[@edghhfdchjnmmm]

thanks GM, very cool!

[@overbanked]

An urbanist's kryptonite LOL

[@SlavaUkraini85]

Growing greatness 😂

[@therealxunil2]

EMD makes deisel locomotives for freight trains, not mass transit. So, yeah, it doesn't speak to the issue. GM had a hand in closing streetcar lines in many cities. That is not a theory, nor is it disputed. GM invested in two companies that actually did the dirty work. Ergo they had a hand in it. Nothing about this is fantasy.

[@DTD110865]

Nope. They made them for passengers too. And yes, the GM Streetcar Conspiracy IS only a theory.

[@PetrScorpio]

ford, ford, chevy, caddy, ford, chevy, chevy, ford.........

[@jackpontiac52]

Hilarious ! 1954? Looks like Edmonton Roads. Full of Potholes and rough breaks !

[@shanescott8241]

All the money's been spent and nothing changed

[@DTD110865]

Because of NIMBYism.

[@th5841]

@@DTD110865 Please explain!

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Because driving is not the way.

[@DTD110865]

@@th5841 NIMBYISTS stopped highways from being finished and even built, and traffic went from bad to worse.

[@th5841]

@@DTD110865 Then at least they did something good. But NIMBYs are well situated people with resources. What they did was to stop the highways from comming in their neighborhoods. So the highways were placed in the poor people's neighborhood instead. No real NIMBYs there. "Real" in the meaning of having influence.

[@DTD110865]

@mistersmith6000 The closure of LA's trolleys had more to do with their own failings rather than any "addiction to oil." Florida's cancellation of the high-speed bullet train wasn't as bad of an idea as you might think, considering that it included too many stops between Tampa and Orlando that would've slowed all the trips down, and would've deprived Amtrak's existing route of needed funds.

[@tylerkriesel8590]

Florida is building the brightline train that go’s from Miami to Tampa. It apparently will go 125mph.

[@DTD110865]

@@tylerkriesel8590 Brightline seems like it might be an interesting ride.

[@DTD110865]

@BuzWeston Except that there were other factors that had nothing to do with Robert Moses which decimated the neighborhoods. Because of the efforts to stop the completion of these highways we now have more traffic and air pollution than we could possibly have imagined.

[@themamagoatshow]

what is it today like 350 million?

[@Leonardo99j]

Best comment i ve seen so far.

[@sprenky72]

This is a cool old video! Thanks for posting! Saw an old car in there exaclty like mine!

[@DTD110865]

Do you know what else is a powerful tool? Bad road conditions, and inefficient roads. People don't like taking a long time to get someplace when the journey can be shorter. Before the Golden Gate Bridge was built, it took over a day to get to Marin County, and before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was built, people waited forever to go to the Delmarva Peninsula. One overcrowded ferry, and if you didn't make it you were screwed.

[@MegaTmarshall]

Okay Mr. Smarty Pants...you explain to me the demise of the LA subway system that existed until shortly after WWII. LOL

[@DTD110865]

You know, rapid transit had just as much of a negative effect on streetcars as the anti-highway zealots claim cars, trucks, buses, and roads did. But here's the thing; Buses are still mass transit.

[@DTD110865]

That still doesn't prove your fantasy conspiracy about GM closing the trolleys of Los Angeles, nor does it prove that the trolleys were always efficient. Did you know that GM also owned Electro-Motive Diesel trains from 1930-2005? Did you also know that some of their buses were also trolley buses? Doesn't sound like a company that's conspiring against mass transit to me.

[@tonymostromable]

BINGO

[@memeander7160]

Did you also know that they likely owned it to keep control of how efficient mass transit was so more people can by cars? You can’t trust that companies buy other businesses for the greater good

[@DTD110865]

@@memeander7160 People wanted cars before GM existed, and buses rode the streets of NYC before GM existed. As for buying other companies for the greater good, most companies bought by GM stayed in existence for a long time.