"They paved paradise to put up a parking lot"
Jun 8, 2017 19:52:44 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jun 8, 2017 19:52:44 GMT
The Titfield Thunderbolt 1953 Townspeople tries to save their railway, against governemntal decisions that the railway shall be replaced by bus lines.
The city where I live and many other cities in Sweden, those who are elected decided over our heads that electric streetcars belonged to the past, and was to be replaced by busses, telling us that it will save millions because petrol is cheap. All electric streetcars where gone by 1972 and replaced by busses. In 1973 came the first oil crises and nothing became cheap at all and busses polluted the air (a fact that took all those politicians by surprice).
The city where I live and many other cities in Sweden, those who are elected decided over our heads that electric streetcars belonged to the past, and was to be replaced by busses, telling us that it will save millions because petrol is cheap. All electric streetcars where gone by 1972 and replaced by busses. In 1973 came the first oil crises and nothing became cheap at all and busses polluted the air (a fact that took all those politicians by surprice).