[ale] Mass Transit was Linux Sys Admin needed

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (tom)]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, William Bagwell wrote:

> On Monday 19 June 2006 09:19 pm, Jim wrote:
>
>> William Bagwell wrote:
>>> snip
>
> Was speaking with my father in-law (who is old enough to remember the
> trolleys) about this the other day. He blamed bus manufactures...
> Apparently who ever did the behind the scenes politicking only convinced
> the big cities and not the few (then) rural areas the trolleys ran to.
>
> Didn't some trolleys have both tires and rail wheels? I can remember seeing
> rails still embedded in a few paved streets in downtown Atlanta as a small
> child. Though the "rail road" style rails with exposed ties through the
> Marietta and Smyrna area were already gone by then.
>
I remember some of those busses, the "rubber wheel trolley" from 
Cleveland. I think _part_ of the revolt against trolleys was the effect of 
the rail in the street on the automobile tire (which wasn't as wide in 
them thar days as you know). Getting your car loose from the track took a 
little bit of doing if my early memory is correct.

That noted, as I understand it, the trolley system(s) was/were under 
significant pressure starting sometime in the mid/late 1930s when enough 
paved road was available to encourage personal automobiles.

Add all the needed disclaimers here, as I'm not a historian nor an 
expert...