How General Motors destroyed America's light-rail transit systems and created the Highway Lobby. That forced Americans to buy cars, build millions of miles of new road, and suffer the bad results.
This week: How GM bought up and intentionally destroyed city trolley systems, replacing the clean and rapid streetcars (which people loved) with slow, crowded, polluting diesel buses. GM built the buses and secretly owned the bus-line companies, but their real goal was to force people to buy cars.
Jim Klein directed this 1996 documentary film, which I have adapted to radio.
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