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.
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
Musk’s hyperloop was meant to pull attention away from viable high speed rail projects.
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.
There are endless examples. I don’t have all day.
- https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/inside-a-key-part-of-the-republican-base-car-deale
- https://legal-planet.org/2026/10/21/why-does-chevron-want-karen-bass-to-win-re-election/
The car cult will attack every candidate who refuses to bow down.
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.


