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This fits nicely into how providing passenger transit has never been a money maker, and when private companies did it it was always a loss leader in support of other ventures. You can charge higher rent on a building with rail service, etc.

funny how this all turned out in japan

Or am I thinking of the els actually

I dont really understand Yerkes because of his role in the London Underground - do you have a view on why London succeeded and US systems failed? Is it really just tunnels?

And rail transit maintenance + expansion costs were already rising even before broad inflation, meaning private owners were essentially signing their own death warrants by agreeing to the fixed fare

But to get back to how badly the trains needed upgrades, let's compare like with like. Here's a sample trip from Downtown LA to Culver City. - LA Metro E line (2026): 30 minutes - Motor Transit Co. bus (1948): 39 minutes - Pacific Electric Railway (1948): 43 minutes 7/

In about 2010 they were putting holes in 5th street (L.A.) between Olive and Grand, for fiber optic vaults. The old rails were still there, under the pavement! (It was amusing watching a skip loader trying to get a rail out.)

Again not all. LAMTL was operated by both PERy & LARY to cover areas not served by either company. There were other bus companies as well, like Asbury Rapid Transit.

Patricia Storace's description of Margaret Mitchell's maternal grandparents comes to mind: "They were the kind of family who as stockholders in the City Railway Company could send a servant to stop a passing trolley car outside their house until they had finished dressing and were ready to board."

AFAIK same reasons as the US, plus, in London, the Underground, plus WWII damage and a terrible post-war economic state. Worn out Heavy Rail after both World Wars led to forced amalgamations. The economy is illustrated by Rationing still being in place (for coal) until 1958.

Isn’t the increase in real estate values a positive externality from the transport network [so like anti-pollution]? In which case, isn’t it legitimate for operators to benefit from that [‘internalising the externality‘] - and shouldn’t that give them incentives to reduce transit charges?

Yellow Cars after the great reorg. He had nothing to do with the PE after 1911. Don’t forget that he was a part of SP.

oooh, a Red Car. (There were also Yellow Cars.)

Well OK, that makes sense. They've always been weird.