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Ah reminiscing, it wasn't always this way in LA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric but car companies
by blondie9x 9y ago
Ah reminiscing, it wasn't always this way in LA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric but car companies sort of trapped us. Now we are inundated with automobiles and all that comes with them. Greenhouse gases, debt, accidents, waste, traffic. Millions of people sitting mostly alone in metal boxes that can seat 5 or 6 unable to reach out and contact the people merge inches or feet away.
- Zafira 9y agoThe GM thing is more myth than anything else, unfortunately. Pacific Electric was, at its core, a way to get people to buy real estate; much of the interurban systems in the United States can be traced back to basically being vehicles for real estate speculation. That doesn't diminish how extensive the system was.
- pls2halp 9y agoThere's a pretty good 99% invisible episode on this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-70-the-great-red-car-conspiracy/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-70-the-great-...