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That's not true. The government did the bidding of General Motors and Standard Oil after WWII and put all their energy in promoting automobile use and consumption. It's well documented, like it or not.

No, it's not documented at all. Cars have become the overwhelmingly dominant mode of transportation not just in the U.S. but in virtually every wealthy country. They are simply much better than the alternatives for the vast majority of travel.

Wouldn't this have been true for those areas before they built the metro?

No.

Yet their building them now. Look at Charlotte NC,California, etc. and they're still outperforming car dependant areas economically.

No, they're not building them. Virtually all new rail transit is light rail, not subways. Subways are far too expensive to build in all but the most heavily-travelled corridors. And the new light rail systems that have been built over the past few decades are so small they have virtually no impact on overall urban transportation. Light rail provides only about 5% of travel by urban mass transit, and a minuscule fraction of total urban travel.

And I have absolutely no idea what evidence you think supports your claim that "they're still outperforming car dependant areas economically."

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