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vonmoltke on Aug 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a ...

The veracity of the story notwithstanding, the core of the conspiracy, though, was to push buses over streetcars, not cars.

vict00ms on Aug 6, 2019 [–]

...Because (per the conspiracy) the manufacturers of cars knew that busses were unpleasant to ride in (compared to trolley cars) and that most people would prefer to own a car over riding in one.

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