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It was Dwight Eisenhower who actually got the idea for the interstate highway system, when he was riding troop trains in WW II. He wanted something faster, easily useable for citywide atomic bomb evacuations, and able to provide runway landing spots for long-range bombers. Dwight got his ideas from the European theater of war, where the Germans had created the Autobahn, among other *efficient* things like the V-1 buzzbomb, the Volkswagon, and Jewish concentration camps! In combination with the post-war defense industry, the interurban rail system in the country was gutted, neighborhoods of modestly-priced row homes (read "ethnic") razed, and a wide strip of mafia-built concrete was laid. Incidentally, the combined trip time for a priority transcontinental passenger train was . . . 72 hours, with those smelly steam engines going over 100 mph. We now have massive traffic jams, charming row homes go for a cool $500,000 to 1 million in some metro areas, and rail travel is perpetually underfunded. The irony never ends, does it? :rolleyes: Needless to say, Eisenhower is one of my least-favorite presidents of all time. Oh, and Lyndon Johnson the *sob*, who mired us in the Vietnam war and perpetuated a massively-bloated government. Gee, thanks.
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