We’re four years from date that the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1977 tried to forecast transportation needs in one of four hypothetical scenarios — and are nowhere near any of them coming to fruition.
The DOT spent $225,000 — over $1 million in 2021 dollars – on a report to forecast transportation needs in the year 2025 under four separate scenarios—where the U.S. undergoes an Ice Age, becomes a dictatorship, is transformed into a hippy culture or blossoms into a society the authors deemed "the American Dream."
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