Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "How highways wrecked American cities" video.

  1. Vox has Eisenhower wrong. He didn't learn Autobahn in Germany. He taught Highway 101 from his very first job after graduating from West Point: teaching logistics at West Point. When he stopped teaching and went out into "military" work his first serious staff position was on a convoy that took 68 days to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific -- and which served as a major source of propaganda for all the stuff this good video talks about. In WWII, as a famous article in Esquire by Murray Kempton broke out, one of Eisenhower's big contributions -- a sort of side issue to being Commander in Chief in Europe -- was having his infantry rebuild roads as fast as they evaporated under his tanks' treads. "Rock crushers on the invasion fleet's boats?" "Yup. We're gonna need roads to get to Germany..." sort of thing.
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