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- - - But we had suburbs that were also walkable and transit oriented, they were called streetcar suburbs. There were massive streetcar systems all around the United States. They were torn up after WWII by a consortium of GM, Standard Oil, and Firestone, and they were all replaced with buses, which became less and less desirable as they got stuck in the same traffic as cars. We transitioned away from a pattern that was pretty healthy. - - -

There was a day when you could jump on a streetcar in Salem NH and go to Boston or even Cape Cod by changing cars just 3 or 4 times.