While doing research into the old Streetcars I came across this little bit of information, which sums up what happen. I'm sorry I can't remember who or where this came from.
"Their (streetcars)loss remains one the great travesties foisted on this metro area, and the man primarily responsible for it was Carl Pohlad, who worked to privatize the public transit system (Twin City Rapid Transit), bought the system, then sold it for a huge profit to General Motors who was buying up all the local rail systems they could get their hands on, then scrapping streetcars for the rubber-wheeled, gas-guzzling buses they manufactured and still do."
I recently read that the last of the old Minneapolis streetcars in New Jersey was finally retired, but several of them still run down in Mexico.
Only one car survives in Minneapolis. The Como-Harriet Streetcar line which runs from Lake Calhoun to Lake Harriet.
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Date: 2004-06-28 03:47 pm (UTC)"Their (streetcars)loss remains one the great travesties foisted on this metro area, and the man primarily responsible for it was Carl Pohlad, who worked to privatize the public transit system (Twin City Rapid Transit), bought the system, then sold it for a huge profit to General Motors who was buying up all the local rail systems they could get their hands on, then scrapping streetcars for the rubber-wheeled, gas-guzzling buses they manufactured and still do."
I recently read that the last of the old Minneapolis streetcars in New Jersey was finally retired, but several of them still run down in Mexico.
Only one car survives in Minneapolis. The Como-Harriet Streetcar line which runs from Lake Calhoun to Lake Harriet.