Reputable reports of car corporations pushing propaganda
I know about the GM street car conspiracy, but I'm curious to see more reports and examples of car lobby pushing against public transportation.
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Musk's hyperloop was meant to pull attention away from viable high speed rail projects.
I think he had more in mind than that, also pull fubding away and prevent decisions aand he chose the Wiss Metro conceot to that end because it made HSR look bad in comparison while had tero chance of ever getting built. After that went the way it was alqays going to go, ... south, he "invented" taxis in sewer tunnels. Las Vegas was corrupt enough to shelf plans fir some proper light rail in favour of that. Luckily noone else was.
I'm pretty sure videos from climate town have a lot of research in them and thewrar on cars is also a good source for new facts and stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_(New_York_World's_Fair)
99% invisible had a series about this, though I don't remember any names of the episodes. Was essentially reviewing a book about a single lobbyist's efforts in the 50s to make the car industry unassailable. The particular lobbyist got his way, and it would often destroy giant parts of every city that had any sort of size of black neighborhoods. Dude was essentially the architect of the way most of america thinks about travel now.
After a short google Robert Moses was the dude's name.
There are endless examples. I don't have all day.
The car cult will attack every candidate who refuses to bow down.
In France we have Danone and Pierre Fabre lobbying really hard for two New highways straight to their headquarters. The A69 and the A412. The A69 has been completed recently after absolutely massive protests. And the A412 is currently rolling with the same playbook: Destroy the zone and build the highway faster than justice can handle the case and put a stop to it.