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Aside: Tires and Conspiracies

While I’m mildly interested in the medical issues surrounding tire dust and latex allergies that Peter Montague raises in his piece “Tire Dust“, I’m much more interested in the history of automotive cabals explicitly destroying electric public transit, as that’s something I was previously unfamiliar with (and frankly, from this one source I don’t have enough to know if it’s something that can be tarred with the “conspiracy theory” brush, despite having footnotes ). Certainly the idea that Los Angeles was once a paragon of clean public transit, and ended up how it did by conscious planning, not by chance, is something that I’m going to have to look into.

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2 Responses to “Aside: Tires and Conspiracies”

  1. will shetterly Says:
    June 16th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
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    With a little googling, you can probably find footage of auto execs gleefully burning a trolley. I’ve seen it on PBS, maybe in the ’80s, so I can’t swear it’s online. But the odds are good.

  2. Kira Says:
    June 27th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
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    I would be very curious to hear what you find out.

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