No Auto bail out! We need public transport, not more cars....

[Jerry Green]

Dear President Elect:

We need public transport, not more cars....

Please don’t bail out the big three auto makers. Let the market work, let them roll, and their plants will go to newer more innovative, companies (Zap, Saturn, etc.) who are founded on renewable futures. Don’t forget that their legacy was founded on their purchase of public transportation systems (electric trains) in Los Angeles and other cities, followed by their closure so that they could sell cars!!

The movie Taken for a Ride tells the story. See it, and remember how maliciously they used our “free market economy” to undermine public transport. Let them be compost. Public transportation will come back!
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Jerry Green
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https://newday.com/films/Taken_for_a_Ride.html Taken for a Ride

by Jim Klein and Martha Olson

Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways? Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets.

The highway lobby then pushed through Congress a vast network of urban freeways that doubled the cost of the Interstates, fueled suburban development, increased auto dependence, and elicited passionate opposition. Seventeen city freeways were stopped by citizens who would become the leading edge of a new environmental movement.

With investigative journalism, vintage archival footage and candid interviews, Taken for a Ride presents a revealing history of our cities in the 20th century that is also a meditation on corporate power, city form, citizen protest and the social and environmental implications of transportation.

Taken for a Ride was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS).

[Dixon]

Hi, Izzy;

"Taken for a Ride" sounds great. Got any idea where it can be viewed?

Dixon