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There was a rumor that between 1938 and 1950, officials at General Motors were buying up train and light rail systems in cities so that people would have to buy more cars. The only falsity in this theory turned out to be that it wasn't just GM that was in on this ploy, but several other companies, as well.Its no wonder we don't have public transportation like every other developed country ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
DrDan
(20,411 posts)Madrid to Sevilla
what a treat - 300 kph - smooth - quiet - on-time
we are sooooooo far behind them in mass-transit
marym625
(17,997 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)wondered when someone was gonna catch on ...
brewens
(13,581 posts)astronomical. Even a staunch conservative friend of mine agrees with me on that. He's what I consider a real conservative though. Really only looks at it from his small businessman perspective. He's 80 now. Never believed in God and thinks abortions should be legal.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)"This photograph of Chinese Americans picketing at the Port of Astoria appeared in the Oregon Journal on March 3, 1939. The picket was organized to protest the sale of scrap iron and steel to Japan, where it was recycled into war material. At the time of the protest, the Japanese government was waging an undeclared war against China. In 1939 approximately 2,000,000 tons of scrap metal were exported from the United States to Japan."
The Japanese in WW II turned the scrap into weapons and shot our buses back at us...
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)He knows it. That Los Angeles once had a good public transportation system. And then they built the freeways.