AskHistorians Podcast Episode 212 – Public Transport in North America with Jake Berman
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Why the MTR and the Streetcar Companies Were So Reviled in North America
The MTR in Hong Kong is very much a it's it is a subway company, but it also is a real estate developer. In Los Angeles, Henry Huntington would buy up acres of worthless land and then run a line through it. The difference is in the 1920s in the United States and Canada, it was basically assumed that there was no other alternative to public transport.
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