Doesn’t matter unfortunately, oil companies have the most influence with the people in the room and oil companies make more money on cars. If they make functional public transport, it means less people will use cars as their regular mode of transportation.
Oil companies literally killed electric trolleys wayyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day. We could have had electrified transportation decades and decades ago but as usual greedy pieces of shit with WAYYYYYY too much power prevent progress…
That was 70 years ago. The gap between now and the 1950s is larger than the gap between the first successful implementation of electric street cars and the 1950s.
The first public electric tramway used for permanent service was the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany, which opened in 1881.
So if your city shut down its streetcars in 1951, like mine did, then what you said is true. If you city had streetcars in 1953 or beyond, its not. Not to be too pedantic about it.
My point is that is less than 1 human lifespan. There are people that rode the streetcars in my city when they were kids that still live here. Its not ancient history, its living memory.
I was going off the first large scale successful implementation of electric streetcars, not the first streetcar.
Frank Sprague installed a complete system of electric streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, in 1888. This was the first large-scale and successful use of electricity to run a city’s entire system of streetcars.
Doesn’t matter unfortunately, oil companies have the most influence with the people in the room and oil companies make more money on cars. If they make functional public transport, it means less people will use cars as their regular mode of transportation.
Oil companies literally killed electric trolleys wayyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day. We could have had electrified transportation decades and decades ago but as usual greedy pieces of shit with WAYYYYYY too much power prevent progress…
It was actually GM mostly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
In most cities, this happens around the 1950s. So not that long ago, if you think about it.
That was 70 years ago. The gap between now and the 1950s is larger than the gap between the first successful implementation of electric street cars and the 1950s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram
So if your city shut down its streetcars in 1951, like mine did, then what you said is true. If you city had streetcars in 1953 or beyond, its not. Not to be too pedantic about it.
My point is that is less than 1 human lifespan. There are people that rode the streetcars in my city when they were kids that still live here. Its not ancient history, its living memory.
I was going off the first large scale successful implementation of electric streetcars, not the first streetcar.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-streetcars-cable-cars-4075558
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