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I forgot to comment, that in the immediate pre-WWII era Los angleles was said to have had the best integrated public transport system in the world.

But the price for subsidizing the building of the extensive road network as LA expanded during the 50s was that the transport network had to be scrapped.

You can still see some of the old rails at intersections where they just tarmaced over the tracks.

and I loved that the new local rail they're building won't go to LAX....for security reasons. Yea Right.

Idiots.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jul 18th, 2007 at 08:50:01 AM EST
What I heard was even worse: automobile maker companies owned bus companies bought up streetcar lines only to close them.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jul 18th, 2007 at 08:57:52 AM EST
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that's about the size of it. yup.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jul 18th, 2007 at 09:10:04 AM EST
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Mind you, railway companies used to buy up canal companies and run/shut THEM down...

Something about Companies, maybe?

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Wed Jul 18th, 2007 at 10:09:58 AM EST
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It's the Irresistible Logic of the Market™, and the fact that corporations are psychopathic.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 18th, 2007 at 10:13:12 AM EST
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... must apply to a specific proposed system ... and that would likely be intended as a cost-cutting project, since the FAA does not fund through rail projects to airports in its public transport access funding.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Thu Jul 19th, 2007 at 07:06:17 PM EST
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