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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by Sir_Son_Son on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:58AM (#32594529)
How could we forget the time the American public bought up their street cars and retired them?
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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by crisdux on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:04AM (#32594616)
That being a major factor in the demise of streetcars is highly disputed. There was an interesting conversation about this on hn last month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32166175
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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by twblalock on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:00AM (#32594570)
The streetcar “conspiracy” is a tired old cliche. Americans wanted cars. They would have saved the streetcars if they had valued them as highly as they valued cars.
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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by bombcar on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:35AM (#32595142)
Busses are better than streetcars in every conceivable way except “poors actually use busses”.

So novelty streetcars are much more desirable than busses.

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