Will We Be Talking About this in 2044?

A former Interior Secretary wrote an article on the impending decline of the domestic car-making industry and called for a shift in strategy towards 'transportmakers'

"Mr. Udall recognized that the country could not afford the economic consequences of losing all of the automobile industry’s jobs and profits. He proposed that the auto companies branch out into “exciting new variants of ground transportation” to produce minibuses, “people movers,” urban mass transit and high-speed intercity trains. Instead of expanding the Interstate highway system, he suggested that the road construction industry take on “huge new programs to construct mass transit systems.” And he called for building “more compact, sensitively planned communities” rather than continuing urban sprawl."

He wrote that in 1972.

I still can't believe those CEOs took 3 separate jets to 'ask' for money from Congress. How disconnected can you be?

Op-Ed Contributor - Have You Driven a Bus or a Train Lately? - NYTimes.com: