ATDTDA (1): De Forest and Kimura (29:32-3)

[Mark Kohut]

By the time it is 'singled-up rail lines, it is too late...

David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:  On 2/1/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
         
  Or at another angle, note the book's reference to the "interurbans." There was a wonderfully efficient,. proliferating network of light rail and local trolleys in much of the suburban and exurban US c. 1910. <cue Randy Newman, 'Dayton, Ohio, 1903'> All good liberals know how the LA trolleys were throttled by Detroit bus (and car) interests -- but the sad fact is that 98% of what killed that network was the preference of all our [great] grandparents for their Very Own Flivver in their Very Own Driveway, and all that implied. We have met the enemy and he is us.

  
Also don't forget that the L.A. trolleys belonged to bloody-fanged tycoons like Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, and were a component of vast and evil real-estate schemes.  Not to mention their Griddish propensities. 





 
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