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Taken for a Ride - The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century
PEACE REBEL
A 1996 documentary on the twentieth-century American decline of public transport and the role of car companies and the highway lobby in it. It is best known for its account of GM's streetcar buyouts.
HN cites it as the go-to documentary on how car-industry interests undermined US transit.
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