Comments by "Marten Trudeau" (@martentrudeau6948) on "EV buses are (still) a COMPLETE DISASTER | MGUY Australia" video.
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Southern California had in 1930's one of the most extensive light rail systems in the world that covered most of the LA basin, it was popular, and worked well, was privately owned, profitable, and a tax paying business, but it began to be was shut down in the late 30's and continued to be shut down throughout 40's, 50s' and 60's, until it was completely shut down. ~ It seems the freeway system was planned to replaced the original rail transit systems. General Motors were really the main reason light rail transit was destroyed across America.
“General Motors has admitted that GM made ... investments in American City Lines in 1943. Soon, American City Lines was buying stock in Los Angeles Railway. By May 1, 1945, they owned 59% of the outstanding stock. The same month, the Los Angeles Railway announced plans to scrap most of the streetcar lines [Source: Moody's]. Pacific Electric was acquired in 1953. By then, a number of lines had already been acquired and destroyed via Pacific City Lines [Source: Hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly: American Ground Transport, 1974]. The Hollywood Blvd. line was destroyed in 1954 and the Glendale-Burbank line in 1955, both using the subway under downtown LA.
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