Everyone likes to leave out the part where the streetcars had been failing for at least a decade and the trend toward buses happened due to simple economics. The GM conspiracy was a simple antitrust case; they conspired to monopolize the burgeoning bus-manufacturing industry
David HoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.