@b92dcc07 Winnipeg has suffered from a similar gerrymandering nightmare from a failed municipal unification process combined with an automobile apocalypse. This image from the same vantage point (looking north up Main Street from Portage Avenue) shows a street built for people & transit taken over by cars

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/057/957/365/581/706/original/07cbece8e1354489.jpeg 

 @4ac54945 @b92dcc07 

Wow! In the 1915 photo, you can clearly see how all the pedestrians and streetcars prevented people from driving downtown, parking, and spending money at local businesses. It's no wonder downtown businesses collapsed without all the customers you see in the modern photo

Much progress! 

 @53471647 @4ac54945 @b92dcc07 It's insane that we were able to build massive networks of rail cars in the early 20th century but can't possibly afford a single line connecting a few different cities 

 @49a98d0e @53471647 @4ac54945 @b92dcc07 We could build a high speed cross country rail line every year for a small fraction of the defense budget.