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FWIW, the article disagrees with this reading of the conspiracy. > While it's true that National City continued ripping up lines and replacing them with buses
by txru 11y ago
FWIW, the article disagrees with this reading of the conspiracy.
> While it's true that National City continued ripping up lines and replacing them with buses — and that, long-term, GM benefited from the decline of mass transit — it's very hard to argue that National City killed the streetcar on its own. Streetcar systems went bankrupt and were dismantled in virtually every metro area in the United States, and National City was only involved in about 10 percent of cases.
- scotty79 11y agoStill they bought some struggling companies with intention of finishing them off, not saving them because their tech competed with their core tech. And they did it covertly. The impact they had is probably arguable. Still, I think that no city in the United States came up with an idea how to benefit from trams, the way European cities did, is a little bit strange. After all that's the country that hosts biggest ball of twine in the world.