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Posted by fdtutf on Wed Jun 16 08:56:11 2021, in response to Re: Anti-car democrats are a road hazard, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jun 15 22:46:43 2021. Buses and streetcars both gained popularity at the same time, in the 1920s, so cars did not slow down buses.That's not true. In the U.S., streetcar companies had difficulty with inflation in the 1920s [1] and began converting many lines to buses. Before that period, buses were a marginal part of the transit picture in the U.S., and the 1920s marked the beginning of the decline of streetcar service. Streetcars in various forms had been a prominent part of transit systems in the U.S. since the late 19th century. [1] Difficulties that were exacerbated by franchise requirements that they maintain the streets they ran on, keeping them nice and smooth for the automobiles that were taking business away from them. |
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