General Motors and
the
Demise of Streetcars
By Cliff Slater
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Demise of Streetcars
Published in
Transportation Quarterly
Vol. 51. No. 3 Summer 1997
(45-66)
1997 Eno Transportation Foundation. Inc.
Lansdown,
Virginia
Cliff Slater's research will be a great disappointment to those inclined toward conspiracy theory. That the streetcar was removed by the market rather than by selfish corporate capitalists may be less newsworthy, but Slater shows it to be true.