General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy
I realize everyone wants to see this as some conspiracy run by a big business in Detroit. They were certainly part of it. But I think it&#x27;s important to realize that all of the consumers were making their own choices and their choices were usually to buy their own personal transportation machine, aka car.<p>Public transportation believers hate to admit it but systems like the streetcar are just slower and more inconvenient. Unless you&#x27;re lucky enough to live near a stop, they don&#x27;t go to your doorstep. They&#x27;re much slower because they&#x27;re always stopping to pick up or drop off someone else.<p>I realize that some cities are now so dense that public transport may be the only choice. The roads can&#x27;t handle too many individual cars. But when this so-called conspiracy went down, many people embraced the idea of owning their own car. It wasn&#x27;t just some crazy scheme cooked up by a few oligarchs in a smoke-filled backroom.