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Taken for a Ride: The Decline of US Public Transport

PEACE REBEL · Documentary · 56 min · 2014 · YouTube title: Taken for a Ride - The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century
Why it's here

HN cites it as the go-to documentary on how car-industry interests undermined US transit.

What it covers

A 1996 documentary on the twentieth-century American decline of public transport and the role of car companies and the highway lobby in it. It is best known for its account of GM's streetcar buyouts.