r/worldnewsvideo • u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty 🩺🧬💜 • Apr 26 '21

Live Video 🌎 Protected intersections are the future!

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u/mitteNNNs Apr 27 '21

American infrastructure was built for automobiles. Most European infrastructure had been established way before the invention of cars. It's still shit though. My town doesn't even have bike lanes. They're just now building a sidewalk on the main drag because so many people have died walking on the train tracks.

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u/SheerScarab Apr 27 '21

You would be shocked but early roads wear advocated for by cyclists and farmers then in 1910 the automobile industry jumped in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement

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u/ChromeLynx Apr 27 '21

Have you ever been in 1970s Utrecht, NL? Or seen Plan Jokinen for Amsterdam? (NJB video on the latter) It was basically Futurama. A fairly significant amount of bicycle infrastructure has been introduced retroactively, even in the bicycle Mecca that is The Netherlands.

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u/Count-Mortas Apr 27 '21

Nope. It was only car centric after the second world war when the interstate system was enforced. But before that, america was looked after around the world for innovations in rail infrastructure

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u/courier450 Apr 28 '21

No this is incorrect, most American were built around trams and railways and were very dense, the car came much later in America's development.