A lot of American cities had excellent street cars, and were built around rail lines, until Firestone, GM, and Standard Oil started funding National City Lines,

A lot of American cities had excellent street cars, and were built around rail lines, until Firestone, GM, and Standard Oil started funding National City Lines, who bought up streetcars and replaced them with buses. It's cool, their executives were fined $1 apiece, so justice was clearly served.