[sustran] Re: question

[Jack Mallinckrodt]

matthias,

This sounds like the famous, so-called "GM Conspiracy" trial which is 
extensively documented at http://www.lava.net/cslater/TQ.HTM.

In summary from that document:
"In February 1974, Bradford Snell, a young government attorney, helped 
create the myth that General Motors caused the demise of America's 
streetcar system and that without GM's interference streetcars would be 
alive and well today. GM may have conspired with others to sell more of 
their automotive products to transportation companies, but that is 
irrelevant to his contention that GM helped replace streetcars with 
economically inferior buses. That they had done—just as they had earlier 
sought to replace the horse and buggy with the automobile.



"The issue is whether or not the buses that replaced the electric 
streetcars were economically superior. Without GM's interference would the 
United States today have a viable streetcar system? This article makes the 
case that, GM or not, under a less onerous regulatory environment, buses 
would have replaced streetcars even earlier than they actually did."

Jack






At 01:06 AM 1/28/03, matthias mueth wrote:

>dear sustran-discuss members,
>
>vaguely i do remember something about an us-american city, where the 
>(rail-based) public transport systems were bought up by the automotive 
>industries, to be demolished, in order to push car-sales...
>
>can anybody tell, whether this holds true or is a rumour, which city this 
>was, and whether there is any quotable information on this(bibliographical 
>notes)???
>
>thank you very much.
>
>best regards,
>
>matthias mueth
>hamburg/germany
>
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Jack
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