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 the Highway Lobby was formed by GM, Standard Oil, DuPont, and the tire companies. How the U.S. then had an orgy of highway-building. The damage to city life. Plus the growing public opposition and the fight for good public transportation. (Continued under "Credits"...)
Alas, the Lobby--in cahoots with Silicon Valley--has a vision of the future: automated cars, and three times as many of them.
Jim Klein directed this 1996 documentary film, which I have adapted to radio.
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "spreading chestnut tree") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
You can download this installment of New World Notes--in MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). On that site, the Program Information page for this installment is here: https://archive.org/details/NewWorldNotes389-TakenForARide-Part2
SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.
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