>>212859997No, he's not. The interstate was developed first and foremost for military use, an idea eisenhower got from the autobahn. The suburbs grew around the early interstate system, not the other way around. They didn't really start tearing up cities for highways until the 1960s, when people were already fleeing the cities in droves to move out to the suburbs.
Your pic is interesting though, I've never heard of that particular case, but a single instance doesn't change the fact that people gravitated to cars willingly.
A lot of people don't understand that oil and car companies could never ever outlobby the train companies, and get people and governments to switch to car centric transport arbitrarily and unwillingly. They were some of the largest companies in the world, and it's laughable to suggest that they couldn't fight back against pre-1950 oil money.