Remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"? That had the car companies' buy-up of PT as its background story.
This also reminds me of Margaret Thatcher's comment that 'if a man is still taking the bus when he's 26 he can count himself a failure in life'.
Me? I ride a bike.

Chris

Cory - one thing. What does the aussie Bushfires (note: Not Brushfires) have to do with GM? *puzzled look*

--Rob
(an aussie!)

Sheesh, people. The bus is going to creeps and weirdos! They put the destination on that sign, not the contents of the bus!

Zed,

   Hmmm. Linkage indeed points to nastyness between '39 and '49:

   http://www.trainweb.org/mts/ctc/ctc06.html
   http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/nclchoms.htm

   At least one site starts the plan around where I believed:

   http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/courses/geog100/CarCult-Big3.htm

   I think WW2 cuts both ways on this -- a *massive* industry had built around the Detroit factories; unless the population switched to cars and the highways built to support them, this infrastructure would collapse from its own weight. So those schemes that started small were accelerated in both their pace and their scale.

   My point isn't that the evisceration was a good thing -- only that we'd live in a very, very different world without it, and it'd be a world not necessarily utopian.

--Dan

Mark made me giggle.

Uh, Dan, the streetcars were doing just fine through the start of WW II. It was after the end of WW II they were eviserated (one thing making that easier was that wartime shortages had prevented a lot of maintenance, so they were falling into disrepair and financially strapped.)

The car-in-every-pot thing really didn't start to catch on till the fifties.

"Right after the court hears the defamation suit launched by drivers against the commercials which branded them all as supporting terrorism because they drive SUVs?"

Sounds like a great idea, Red! Let the bloody bastards feed on themselves.

Go private, too - complain to the body that controls the "Community Contributor" logo, and get them to
pull their authorization to use the logo and
'community contributor' description, which is
quite likely trade-marked.

The law of Unintended Consequences affects GM's evisceration of public transit as much as anything else. It's been said that World War II was won in the factories of Detroit. No evisceration, no market, no factories.

Nothing is ever cut and dry.

RHB -- that quote is really good :-)

--Dan

http://www.adstandards.com/en/Standards/submission.asp

complain here.

Note that the bus's number is 23.

"There's always one big huge creep or wierdo on every bus. If you look around and don't see one, it's probably you."

He he! Too true! I think I'll make that my new bumper sticker.

"Seems like all the users of the Vancouver transit system could get together and file a class action suit against GM for defamation of character."

...Right after the court hears the defamation suit launched by drivers against the commercials which branded them all as supporting terrorism because they drive SUVs?

The sword of justice cuts both ways, etc.

Edited by author 03-25-2003 09:53 AM
God, i *HATE* the bus with every particle of my being. I hate buses in general.
BUT what a bunch of selfish, greedy bastards for thinking up ads like that. i'm astonished at how evil that is.
does anyone have a link to their past efforts at eliminating public transportation

Oh...- Did you have to have a link to IndyMedia? Those are the sick, dispicable and pathetic scumbags who praised the actions of the Muslim soldier who carried out a grenade attack on his officers.

I can do without the muckraking, slanted tripe from Indymedia for the rest of my life. They have become a Rush Limbaugh equivalent.
and before i get assaulted for my dislike of IndyMedia, this is what they posted:

   "The grenade attack that took place today in Kuwait is alleged to be committed by another AMERICAN SOLIDER. Repeat. The Grenade attack today was an example of Fragging--not a terrorist attack. This shows that RESISTANCE and REBELLION ARE ON THE RISE! Watch the American Free Press downplay and try to bury this incident. Support our Troops--but only those who Frag their commanding officer."


disgusting.

Seems like all the users of the Vancouver transit system could get together and file a class action suit against GM for defamation of character.

There's always one big huge creep or wierdo on every bus. If you look around and don't see one, it's probably you.