
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 212 – Public Transport in North America with Jake Berman
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Minneapolis St. Paul, Minnesota
In some cases, you'll have something like the Red Car System in Los Angeles where they open up a bus company. And so the Pacific Electric Railway merged with the Motor Transit Company and for a long time the bus lines were still profitable well into the 1940s and 50s when trains were losing money. In other cases, you have cut down so that you keep the higher capacity of rail, but for like the busiest lines, but lesser used lines where it doesn't make sense to run trains, those would be converted to bus Like in Minneapolis, St. Paul is a really weird case because the mafia got involved and the streetcar shutdown was ultimately masterminded by the mob. That's a whole
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