The New Deal built roads but they weren't particularly good quality ones, certainly not the mega-highways that became the Interstate system. Compare that to, say, Japan where the Shuto Expressway mostly has a speed limit of 60km/h (37mph).
Really what killed the rail system was the concept of free highway travel. Private companies will never be able to compete with free, government subsidized travel. It so thoroughly killed private companies that they couldn't even afford to really downsize and salvage what was left of their passenger operations. By comparison you have to pay for highway travel in Japan and China and Korea.
Really what killed the rail system was the concept of free highway travel. Private companies will never be able to compete with free, government subsidized travel. It so thoroughly killed private companies that they couldn't even afford to really downsize and salvage what was left of their passenger operations. By comparison you have to pay for highway travel in Japan and China and Korea.