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Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don't, but a man can dream though. A man can dream.

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[-] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

So happy mine are paid off.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

t.b.f the reporting is more about whether these companies have hidden loans (including possibly loans that other lenders don't know about), which could have happened within railway companies just as easily as in car companies!

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

can we make city streets public transportation only and resort personal vehicles to the outer parts? Like we dont got trolleys going down our cities' broad streets/broadways these days, but lets get a shitton of busses goin up and down with no worry of joe in his civic.

[-] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

I shopped around for like 3 months before I finally found a car in my budget, and it was 600 miles away

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago

Bicycles and trains. Always has been.

[-] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

This is not a singular issue. That’s still millions who prefer the US to be car centric, and they fight to keep it that way. Just move to Europe

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