This wiki on the Great American streetcar scandal has been keeping me up tonight.
If you want to know why you look at old metropolitan street photo’s from the 1890s-1940s and see streetcars and why they’re suddenly all gone by the time you start looking at photos from the 1950s, all your answers are right here.
Interestingly enough, this article proves what I’ve been saying for years actually is true and has proved to work even as far back as the 1890s: All public transportation should be privately owned in order to function properly and best serve the people. You put taxpayer money into an operation this large and with many voices trying to carry it and it will always fail.
