Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "The Highway Fight that Changed Cities Forever" video.

Eisenhower wanted German inspired autobahns in the USA for military logistics. He never intended the Interstate Freeway to be used by hundreds of millions of civilian cars. But at the end of the day, Eisenhower never realized that Hitler built the autobahn for commercial trucking and not for the Wehrmacht.
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The reason why New York Coty is experiencing big gentrification is because the USA has mostly become car centric, low density suburban. New York is one of the few places where strip malls, parking lots, etc. did not get built in large numbers. While there was demolition in New York, it wasn’t as much compared to other regions of the USA.
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@tinkerthetinyrobot "nazis didn't invent the autobahn." XD So what's next? Africa created the first missiles, and V-1 rockets? Asians invented the combustion and diesel engine? Lmao Everyone with a basic understanding of history knows that German engineering is always the best!
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@starventure Go check the stats and talk to ordinary people. Anyone who is able to move to NYC has already done so, as car centric suburbia falls apart.
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