General Motors and the Demise of Streetcars

By Cliff Slater

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Published in
Transportation Quarterly

Vol. 51. No. 3 Summer 1997 (45-66)
1997 Eno Transportation Foundation. Inc.
Lansdown, Virginia

Cliff Slater's research will be a great disappointment to those inclined toward conspiracy theory. That the streetcar was removed by the market rather than by selfish corporate capitalists may be less newsworthy, but Slater shows it to be true.

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