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Sun nite 11/16/08. Few things are as delightful as finding one's ideas
corroborated. Thanks for your piece on Common Dreams re GM/transit.
I'm old enough to remember well the deliberate and systematic
destruction of
L.A.'s not-bad transit system when I was a teenager. Earlier than
that, I
remember when nearly everyone took public transit--and no one felt
low or put-
upon.
My favorite examples are RED HARVEST by Dashiell Hammett, in whch the
detective (circa 1922) is in a small city--obviously Butte, Montana--
and takes
the STREETCAR. And the early post WW II movie STRANGERS ON A TRAIN,
in which
the characters DO take the train, because there WERE trains. (I
STILL take the
train whenever possible.)
I also remember the early TV series, when I was about 16, back in
the stone
age, 77 SUNSET STRIP; that was just about the first one devoted
mainly to
supposedly glamorous people spending a lot of time driving around in
the first
generation of new cars after the war--one of the main characters was
a parking
lot valet.
I'm much bemused: it seems to me 99.9% of ALL environmental stuff I
hear on
the radio (I don't do TV*) has the underlying notion that somehow
our current
level of consumption can be kept up.
Uh-uh.
Thanks for your good work; keep it up!
*I've never owned a car--and I haven't died. (So far.)
