Yeah, a lot of people wanted Eisenhower to be President, but let's be honest here - he was a better fit for a Cabinet position. Could you imagine what kind of system we would have if he were something like Secretary of Transportation? I mean, the current system is just, in the words of former President Gore, a giant steaming mess. Even at its peak, you couldn't drive from NYC to LA in less than a week, and that was in good weather and assuming you didn't hit some bridge out on a back road in Kansas. And air travel was an even bigger nightmare until the low-budget airlines came in and made the big guys straighten things out. I heard that Daesh and Hezbollah were plotting an attack on America's transport system for years using planes or something and they got so frustrated with the logistics that they attacked the NYSE and ended up humiliating themselves.
One positive long-term seems to be this high-speed rail that's being developed. It's bringing back a lot of the jobs the auto industry's failure lost. Also, it looks like it may breathe some life into that ghost city Detroit or even the entirely rural state of Michigan, abandoned after GM and Ford went belly-up and Chrysler merged with Toyota and moved operations to Japan. I mean, who really needs that many cars anyway? People just soup up the old ones, since they figured out how to after all those old domestic cars fell apart from the shitty roads. And people can even put their cars on freight rails now. The way I see it, let the rich have their fancy new cars. Our soup shops do an amazing job of overhauling our old cars.
Also, I wonder if we would even have urban agriculture if Eisenhower's vision came to pass. Cities pretty much only need resources now in order to sustain themselves; they have food figured out.