What happened to the Interurban?
The Great Transportation Conspiracy then and now
With all the talk from the globalist cabal about global warming, now they say global boiling, and their proposed solutions such as limiting cars and car travel, it seems something has been forgotten.
According to When Ohio Was the Future of Public Transit: The Interurban Era:
“Interurbans … seem to be little more than a blip in transportation history, and yet their popularity, efficiency and socioeconomic benefits remain nearly unrivaled…
‘The Midwest, particularly Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, probably had more interurbans than any other part of the country….They radiated out of the larger cities like Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Lima,’ Alex Campbell, who runs rail history website columbusrailroads.com, said”.
Interurbans were popular in many places, including Los Angeles. According to From the Archives: Did Auto, Oil Conspiracy Put the Brakes on Trolleys?:
“It has been 40 years since the last clang-clang-clang of a trolley in Los Angeles. The Yellow Car -- the city’s local electric-car line -- made its final run March 31, 1963, a farewell tour on the “V” Line from Los Angeles City College on Vermont Avenue to Pico Boulevard.
Two years earlier, the interurban Red Cars that once ran from Redlands to Santa Monica for a penny a mile had made their last runs. Once both were gone, so was the golden age of mass transit in Los Angeles.
In the decades since, Angelenos have repeatedly asked the question: Who was responsible for dismantling the electric trolley cars?”
Jonathan Kwitny said:
“Mass transit didn’t just die, it was murdered…When GM and a few other big companies created a transportation oligopoly for the internal-combustion engine…they did not rely just on the obvious sales pitch. They conspired. They broke the law…in 1949 a jury convicted the corporations and several executives of criminal antitrust violations for their part in the demise of mass transit.”
One of those corporations was Standard Oil, created by the Rockefellers, the same Rockefellers that today are behind hypocritical climate initiatives like SDG7: The Impossible Energy Transformation.
How can people with such histories be believed?