[OT] Public Transit

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

> Well I have a hard time believing GM made an excellent product, but I
> guess at some point in time (long ago) they probably did.  Of course
> given how they have done since they would probably have been making the
> same model still if no one had been competing with them.
>

GM were instrumental in getting streetcars replaced with busses in many
American cities. It's interesting to speculate why that didn't happen
entirely in Toronto: farsightedness or inertia?

The Great American Streetcar Scandal
http://environment.about.com/od/fossilfuels/a/streetcars.htm

-- 
Peter Hiscocks
Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto
http://www.syscompdesign.com
USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator
647-839-0325

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists