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Derby, CT is a small, working-class, post-industrial town with a population which has been stagnant at about 12,000 for more than six decades.

The geniuses over at the Connecticut DOT decided that this obviously meant that the town's Main Street needed to be widened, by twice the size, destroying a number of historic buildings and uprooting numerous small community businesses in the process. That red stripe on the far left of the "After" pic is the new edge of the street.

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[–] primrosepathspeedrun 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

okay so why the shit were they using it perfectly fine a century ago? with overhead wire?

why are there all these abandoned towns and grain elevators and farmland scattered over rural america that no longer works now that the trains can't get there anymore? why the shit did it work for the deepest most remote ass end of nowhere villages in rural mexico during the diaz administration? why did it work for the USSR-of all their fuckups; they did make trains to rural areas work pretty damn well.

you're repeating bullshit auto industry propaganda. trains may service rural areas differently, but they can be served, and they can be served well. we know this because it's been done before on I think three continents. do better.