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A comment on Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'.

Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal' by Sniffnoy on Monday April 25, 2016 @12:26PM (#11565331)
One factor that this article doesn't mention is that many streetcar companies were locked into contracts that prevented them from raising fares above 5¢. National City Lines didn't come in until well after problems had already started. (Pulling that from here: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562007/streetcar-history-demise )
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Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal' by SilasX on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:19PM (#11565724)
Was it physically easy to raise prices by a penny?

IIRC, there was an account of an issue with Coca-Cola's vending machines and them not wanting to raise prices and finding all kinds of convoluted workarounds, including asking the treasury to issue a 7.5 cent coin.

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Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal' by astrodust on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:40PM (#11565865)
There are Coke signs attached to buildings that to this day advertise 5 cent cola.
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