Taken for a Ride
2016
Computer Files, Websites
Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways? Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets. The highway lobby then pushed through Congress a vast network of urban freeways that doubled the cost of the Interstates, fueled suburban development, increased auto dependence, and elicited passionate opposition. Seventeen city freeways were stopped by citizens who would become the leading edge of a new environmental movement. With investigative journalism, vintage archival footage and candid interviews, Taken for a Ride presents a revealing history of our cities in the 20th century that is also a meditation on corporate power, city form, citizen protest and the social and environmental implications of transportation..
Main title:
Author:
New Day Films (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
New Day Films, 1996.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
In Process Record.Title from title frames.FilmOriginally produced by New Day Films in 1996.In English
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Index terms:
DocumentariesNorth American Studies
BRN:
416950
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/179900/external-image - Cover Image