User:Mr.MaggotMann/Car dependency

Origins of car dependency
Katy freeway/I-610 in Texas

As automobile use rose drastically in the 1910s, American road administrators favored building roads to accommodate traffic rather than disincentivize the behaviors that lead to it. Administrators and engineers in the interwar period spent their resources making small adjustments to accommodate traffic such as widening lanes and adding parking spaces, as opposed to larger projects that would change the built environment altogether. American cities began to tear out tram systems in the 1920s. Car dependency itself saw its formation around the Second World War, when urban infrastructure began to be built exclusively around the car. The resultant economic and built environment restructuring allowed wide adoption of automobile use. In the United States, the expansive manufacturing infrastructure, increase in consumerism, and the establishment of the Interstate Highway System set forth the conditions for car dependence in communities. In 1956, the Highway Trust Fund was established in America, reinvesting gasoline taxes back into car-based infrastructure.

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70 Stat. 374