My neighborhood in @CityofMissionKS 1941 & 1954. Diagonal line is an electric commuter train, decommissioned 1940.pic.twitter.com/IgsKmZ55XS
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Yeah, I mean the decommissioning of the train and the appearance of a road grid system as post-war suburbs grew. Each house had a car.
The Strong Line died a natural death from bankruptcy. But another year and wartime austerity, etc. Could have made it!
And still, KC streetcars went strong until GM conspiracy killed them to promote cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy … Not a natural evolution.
GM did the same to light rail in SF...
Oh, and a lot of places. We went to the cable car museum. Took a lot of effort to keep those two lines running through the bus-takeover.
Also disappeared: Staircases. Friend lives on hilltop community above industrial areas. Used to have stairs down to streetcars to factories.
Killing trains means everyone had to go get a car, and a garage, and more roads, and parking lots, and now curses air Q and rush hour.
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