Submitted by Phillip_Lipton t3_xy0nuk in todayilearned
Man I hope they didn’t do that on highways
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Haha could you imagine the road rage these days if we all did 35mph on the freeway?
Most of the interstate freeway system wasn't built until the 50s. The rural highways in the article were often 1 lane roads in each direction. People in the 40s didn't generally choose to live so far from their workplaces as we do today.
It’s a good thing I mentioned “these days” then
The implication is that the interstate freeway system would have a higher mph rating. Which, it got, @ 55mph as the "most efficient speed". You're comparing two situations that are dissimilar in the important aspect.
That’s why I used the word “imagine” and “these days” it was a hypothetical situation on how it would be portrayed these days IF they made it mandatory for 35 mph on the freeway
Edit: don’t understand the downvotes on what was clearly stated in the comment I had posted. Some salty ass people I guess. Or just Reddit culture to downvote anything they see downvoted.
I can't imagine having to go that slow for any serious length work commute let alone full highway travel. Trying to visit family would have been a nightmare
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They were, they simply didn’t travel as far as we commonly do today.
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Of course. Someone even set a hilarious book during one.
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Next you'll be saying Dr Strangelove or Catch 22 weren't funny.
Anyhow, having actually red the book, it is hilarious.
In the early to mid 40´s, germany had alot of tourists.
>I can't imagine having to go that slow for any serious length work commute
are you kidding, this is an upgrade in LA and the bay area
That works. Cutting out long discretionary trips seems like part of the plan.
I can’t imagine any sort of voluntary participation thing that we could get even a third of the country to reliably do. Anything coming from the top-down automatically loses half of the population.
Sometimes I think about everything we use social security numbers for and all the different uses they have in a modern technology-driven society. Can you imagine if the federal government told the citizens of today that they were going to assign everyone a number to help keep track of them? I don’t think it would go over smoothly.
This was before the freeway system and the concept of “highway” was a lot more primitive than what we have today. Long distance travel via automobile was also vastly less common vs. train.
At the start of WWII, Route 66 was about 15 years old. And it was leisurely and romantic as the song implies. Road trips in those days was one part Griswold Vacation, one part Conestoga wagon train, one part diarrhea apocalypse from all the roadside diners.
My Grandma talked about a 6 day road trip from Denver to Salt Lake City in the middle of the war. She made it seem like half the time they were waiting for cattle to move.
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