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Good video on how much of a suburban hell most of the US has become:
I expect this sort of stuff will make the collapse in the US far worse than it was for USSR. Car culture entirely depends on well functioning logistics. Once those start to break down then all hell is going to break loose. It's only going to take a short disruption of food and fuel being delivered to the suburbs to make them unlivable.
Well if the system fails a bit, your bus or tram won't drive because the driver isn't paid.
If the system fails so hard that fuel isn't available at all, you have a catastrophe uncompatible to industrial society in total.
People actually did keep going to their jobs during USSR collapse even when their salaries weren't coming in. A lot of infrastructure kept working because of that. Again, a very different type of society from what we see in the US.