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Little bit of c/fuckcars in there too ;)
This is great! Very thorough and interesting - something about timelines that diverge around 1970/1980 are very interesting to me. A little more familiar and niche. Can't wait to dig deeper into it later on :)
Excellent, I'm glad you like it so far! I picked 1980 as the divergence because I feel like a lot of our modern ills can be traced back to, or would not have been as severe without, Reagan, and I wanted to have a situation where humanity pretty much had their shit together but were then undone by forces truly beyond their control. I also obviously took heavy inspiration from Fallout, but didn't want to do a direct 1-1 copy, y'know?
And yeah, I definitely did grind a few of my own personal axes in there, heh. During the transit revolution section, the town I give as an example of a "worse outlying town" that "dries up and becomes a ghost town" due to lack of rail service is the town where I currently work, which is based on the reality that a bunch of rich nimbys there shot down a proposed BART extension to it for all the usual reasons rich nimbys shoot down public transit proposals. The extension in question would have come straight from Oakland, but I'm sure that had nothing to do with it.