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In the US the only thing that stopped municipal trams was bribes from auto manufacturers
by lonelappde 7y ago
In the US the only thing that stopped municipal trams was bribes from auto manufacturers
- asdff 7y agoIn LA they were run by a private company that was mandated by the city to keep fares the same as in like 1910 despite costs being far higher in the 1950s. Service was cut and cut and ridership therefore fell and fell until the company folded and the city ripped out nearly all the rails. By contrast, nearly the exact same thing happened in NYC. All the trains there were private, went bankrupt, but the city bought and expanded the system instead of tearing it out.