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A third of Americans don't drive. So why is our transportation so car-centric?
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And car makers sucessfully managed to lobby for it in the last 100 years.
Even the Netherlands was turned into a car centric country after WW2, it's just that people fought back against car centric design starting in the 1970s because they realised how bad it is for everyone.
The USA helped rebuild a lot of countries after WWII through the Marshall Plan, which is probably partly why so many ended up with car-centric infrastructure.