Reply #33: The U.S. had WONDERFUL public transportation before WWII! Read on.... [View All]

[kittykitty]

I grew up in Cleveland, OH. There were streetcars everywhere and they were ELECTRIC! ALso buses that were ELECTRIC! There was an Interurban train that ran by my house before I was born, but the Interurbans were discontinued in 1938. They were little one car trains that went between urban areas.

It was said that you could travel from Maine to Wisconsin by taking connecting Interurban trains.

You could travel by train (although they were steam engines and not so clean) to any large city and many small towns. We once had a map of Ohio from the early 1900's that was covered with train lines that went to and from any small burg, so you could travel anywhere.

After the war the oil companies bought up all the trains, and the public transportation companies, tore up all the tracks and made travel by automobile necessary--thus making us dependent on buying gasoline.

The oil companies changed the way we live and really are the root of all evil.