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Local Rail Extras I | 27 comments (27 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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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Re: Los angeles (none / 0)

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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Re: Los angeles (none / 1)

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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Re: Los angeles (none / 0)

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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