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Interesting retrospective at first on the highway lobby postwar massacre of electric rail transit in the US but it was actually worse than that. GM et al really wanted to kill all public transit as LA was their mindset not Manhattan. They even wanted to kill the NYC subway.
Note the background of all these experts is a sea of skyrises. Urbanization is truly the friend of all the species. But especially the order rodentia, the survival mammal.