Public transport
conspiracy
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Conspiracies
[No money in public transport but plenty in cars and road
building, hence the dire state of public transport (the Conservative Chairman
for many years was a road builder, McAlpine). The poor state of the train system in the UK is one
example, another is the tram system is Los Angeles which was ripped up and
thrown away.]
See:
The Electric Car Maglev trains
[DVD] Taken for a
Ride
The Street Car
Conspiracy. How General Motors Deliberately Destroyed
Public Transit by Bradford Snell
The tyranny of
the car... public transport in the UK has been deliberately run off the rails.
Beeching and the tearing up of the tracks
Ken
Livingstone! Back in the early eighties Ken and his deputy at the GLC, Dave
Wetzel attempted to rid London of the plague of the motor car, it was not to be.
Standard Oil
made one family a heap of money, never mind that as a necessity democracy fell
by the wayside, just what did Standard get up to?
Public
transport in the United States subjected to the selfish arbitrary will of the
super-greedy. Everybody looses out so why is it allowed to happen??
How consumption has
been turned into an obsession, it's incredible what we will become used to if
nobody comes along to tell us it is rubbish and that we are being used...
critique of consumerism