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LA Link DumpLet’s stay in LA for the news a bit, shall we? - If you read this headline quickly enough, it sounds like they’re talking about the greatest NFL franchise ever (bold and caps mine): “Los Angeles Taco Trucks can stay put again.” [LA Times] - Some guy has crashed his car into the gates of the Playboy Mansion twice in the past two weeks. Make your own jokes in the comments section. [LA Times] - Hey, LA cops accidentally shoot at innocent people all the time! This time, a cop was aiming for a robbery suspect but hit a Metro bus instead. No wonder they say public transit in LA is horrible. There were no injuries, but one woman is being treated for anxiety. Expect a $200 million lawsuit to be forthcoming. [LA Daily News] - And speaking of public transit, construction workers in Downtown LA found old trolley car rails buried beneath six inches of asphalt. You see, LA used to be a city you didn’t need a car to get around before an American automobile company bought the public transit system and ran it into the ground to bolster its own sales. That’s not a joke. [blogdowntown] |
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No, it isn’t a joke. A consortium of General Motors, Firestone, and Standard Oil formed a holding company called “National City Lines” to buy streetcar systems throughout the country, including Philadelphia. They purposefully ran the systems ineffectively to the point where it made more financial sense for the cities to shut down the routes and buy buses…made by GM, running on Firestone tires, and powered by Standard Oil gas. brilliant, but also possibly nothing more than a conspiracy theory. Either way, many of the cities who lost the trolleys are putting them back in service, one line at a time.