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Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:04:52 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

Why not bring back horse- and mule-drawn vehicles for short-distance goods hauls? Why electrify these instead?

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  simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:50:26 JST simsa03
  
  Car traffic expanded in the U.S. cities from the 1920s onwnwards. Before that, the road system and #infrastructure wasn't fit for this mode of #transportation, not to forget the poor safety standard of cars, etc. Cf. https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2022/08/paving-the-way-traffic-flow-maps-from-the-1920s/
  Both, cars and horse-drawn carriages, had their peak at different times.
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    Paving the Way: Traffic Flow Maps From the 1920s | Worlds Revealed
    
    Soon after the car came, inevitably, car traffic. Since the dawn of the automobile, the wide open road would become less and less wide open as private car ownership came to dominate the American transportation landscape in the early 20th century. While revolutionizing travel for many, the early decades of automobile use were fraught with …

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