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Taken for a ride : the real story of the auto/oil industry campaign to destroy public transit and push the auto
"Investigates claims that General Motors masterminded the purchase and destruction of the trolley car companies, replacing them with inefficient bus lines which eventually made way for the growing number of private cars"--TV Week.
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- ""Investigates claims that General Motors masterminded the purchase and destruction of the trolley car companies, replacing them with inefficient bus lines which eventually made way for the growing number of private cars"--TV Week."@en
- ""Investigates claims that General Motors masterminded the purchase and destruction of the trolley car companies, replacing them with inefficient bus lines which eventually made way for the growing number of private cars"--TV Week."
- ""This is a story about how things got the way they are, why sitting in stalled traffic seems perfectly natural, why our public transportation is the worst in the industrialized world, and why super highways cut right through the heart of our cities. This is a story about how the auto and highway industry reshaped America.""@en
- ""Why does America have the worst public transit in the industrialized world, and the most freeways? Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets. The highway lobby then pushed through Congress a vast network of urban freeways that doubled the cost of the Interstates, fueled suburban development, increased auto dependence, and elicited passionate opposition. Seventeen city freeways were stopped by citizens who would become the leading edge of a new environmental movement. With investigative journalism, vintage archival footage and candid interviews, Taken for a Ride presents a revealing history of our cities in the 20th century that is also a meditation on corporate power, city form, citizen protest and the social and environmental implications of transportation."--New Day Films website."@en
- "Film follows the trail of the demise of public transportation and the rise of the automobile in the United States."@en
- "Film follows the trail of the demise of public transportation and the rise of the automobile in the United States."
- "Following a long buried trail of auto/oil industry schemes, Taken For A Ride exposes the dummy companies, secret stock transactions and propaganda compaigns that motorized one third of the nation's streetcars. Tracks were torn up overnight, and ear splitting, bone jarring buses took the trolley's place. Scores of American cities lost their streetcars, including five of the nation's ten largest. The same players, organized as "the highway lobby," then campaigned for a network of urban freeways that would destroy America's downtowns and turn the dream into a nightmare."@en
- "Presents the efforts and success of General Motors Corporation in promoting gasoline-powered buses and automobiles and so eliminating electric street railway systems from major American cities, in empowering support for highways rather than for public transit systems, and in influencing today's thinking about the form such transit systems would take."
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