@clmarohn just catching up on your series about Portland--fantastic stuff, very glad you're sticking to your guns even when the fans get mad
what have you read abt streetcar suburbs? I'm willing to bet they were just as overleveraged as their highway counterparts are now
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there's earlier precedent too for main line railways--post Civil War railway boom triggered the Long Depression when it popped...
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...railway companies would run lines into the middle of nowhere and assume towns would follow, but it rarely worked out that way
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