HIGHWAY ROBBERY

Start fresh in 1950 with $5,000.

Make choices. Build a life. Watch your city change.

Can you make it to 2025?

🏙️ Pick your city
💰 Manage your cash
🚗 Live through decades
😤 Keep your cool

CREATE YOUR CHARACTER

Generation 1: 1950-1975
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John Doe
Factory Worker

CHOOSE YOUR STARTING CITY

Where will your story begin?
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NEW YORK CITY

Subways run 24/7. Dense blocks. High costs.
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DETROIT

Motor City. Union wages. Streetcars dying.
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LOS ANGELES

Red Cars everywhere. Sun and car culture rising.
1950
Generation 1
Welcome to your story...
YOUR CHOICES:

GAME OVER

THE REAL STORY

Everything you played was based on real history

The Financial Trap

→ How Car Ownership Keeps Americans From Financial Stability → Americans Spend $470K on Cars Over Lifetime

City Histories

→ Detroit's Streetcars: Past and Present → The Cross Bronx Expressway → LA's Last Red Car → What Really Killed LA's Streetcars

Modern Transit Failures

→ Atlanta Olympics Transportation Disaster → Hurricane Sandy Floods NYC Subways → NYC Subway Crisis of the 1980s

Policy and Systemic Failures

→ 1986 Transit Funding Cuts → Detroit's Insurance Poverty Tax

What You Can Do

Car dependency was designed by policy. Policy can be redesigned by people like you. Your local city council controls walkable streets, bike lanes, and transit funding. Show up to meetings. Demand better. Vote for candidates who prioritize people over cars.