Gallery: Mass Transit Through the Years
This gallery of Post covers features our favorite mass transit illustrations.
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Tag Archives: mass transit
What Government Needs to Do
The stage is set for a renaissance in public transportation, says former chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Opinion by Jim Oberstar
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Halting the March of Progress?
This 1945 Post cover started a movement to save San Francisco’s endangered cable cars.
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ZZZ-Pass
In this unsigned editorial from 1959, the author has a modest proposal for improving the financial health of America’s transit systems.
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Caution! Danger Ahead!
Between 1920 and 1929, American Railroading revenue dropped more than 40 percent. Was there any hope for railroads in 1931?
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The Looming Crisis In Mass Transit
What is it going to take to wean Americans off the car and get us back onto buses and trains?
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A Monorail in Los Angeles?
A missed opportunity? How Los Angeles nearly built a monorail system in 1964.
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Manhattan’s Daily Riot
Rapid transit came to define New York City—this 1945 Post article waxes poetic about the Big Apple’s crush of humanity.
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For the Love of Streetcars
In a 1947 article, one man describes riding on 92 different streetcar systems across the United States.
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