• Mirshe@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Pretty much, yes. It was a stunt to siphon away money and political will from a high speed interurban rail.

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          19 days ago

          Like John D Rockefeller convincing cities to kill their electric trolly system in favor of gas guzzling busses, which spent the next century belching leaded exhaust fumes into the air, essentially lead poisoning the entire American atmosphere and brain power.