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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Grew up riding them in Germany.
Love street cars.
If the drivers in Houston are anything like in Dallas they should never have been issued licenses. Given the choice I'd rather drive around S. FL during the height of snowbird season.
The GM/rail issue was documented. Catch the film "Taken for a Ride", New Day Films: Taken for a Ride
In a nutshell GM, Standard Oil and Firestone got together and formed a separate company to buy up existing commuter rail lines and replace them with bus lines. People hated the buses. They then launched a marketing campaign promoting automobiles as the way of the future. The end game was to sell more cars which used petroleum and required tires.
It's all a matter of public record.
A classic example of what happens when businesses go unregulated and place corporate greed before public interests. |
Oh hogwash. That is well OPINIONATED, not well documented. Slanted and innacurate.
Jim Klein is about as unbiased as Michael Moore.
Sloan and others recognized that the streecar system was inefficient and a huge waste of public money.
They saw an opportunity to offer the public something better and make money doing it, and they did. We used to call that
THE AMERICAN DREAM but it somehow became evil to some "folks" along the way , but that leads to another documentary made by Jim Klein: 'SEEING RED", a sympathetic look at lives of American communists and their struggles to fight against capitalism.
You make is sound like Sloan took away something good and replaced it with something bad and it was not in the public's best interest. that simply is not true.