Originally Posted by nathank
you guys probably mostly all know this already, but...
General Motors and a tire company (Firestone i think) and an oil company were found GUILTY in US Court for conspiracy for exactly this:
they indirectly bought the trolley systems in vairous cities (Portland, Sanfrancisco + others) and replaced them with busses = tore up or paved over the tracks == more vehicles to sell, more tires and more oil! they were found guilty in court and had to pay some penalty but the damage was already done!
not sure if the same thing happened in canada, but very likely.
Yes, I was aware of that. I don't know of any specific/known instance in Canada, but certainly the mindset was present, whether or not conspiracies existed. Also present was a mindset that public transit was for the poor/elderly/second class, and we are barely starting to get over that now.