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To: tejek who wrote (150778)	9/3/2002 12:47:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1586098

Ted the companies would not have been able to buy up the trolly lines if trollies provided a significant portion of intra city transportaion with a decent margin. They would have been to expensive. To the extent that they did buy up lines the real reason they where able to and thus overall a bigger reason behind the decline of the trollies was "Furthermore, local governments were becoming increasingly hostile to trolley operators. Track repairs were often hindered by demands on transit companies to also repair adjoining streets; simultaneously, municipalities made additional claims on their revenues. In New York the nickel fare was mandated despite inflationary trends, making once profitable trolley lines (and subway and elevated lines) into money losing propositions. " Also if trollies made such obvious sense that the only reason they went away was because some one bought them up then they would have come back eventually. If they where the most efficent way to meet the need they only wouldn't come back due to political opposition and I don't see too much political opposition to them. Cars or even busses are more flexible and most people like the flexibility. Tim

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