General Motors streetcar conspiracy

The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to a contention that General Motors (GM), acting in conjunction with several other companies and through the National City Lines (NCL) holding company, illegally acquired many streetcar systems in various cities around the United States, dismantled and replaced them with buses for the express purpose of promoting the automobile.

External links

• Details on NCL ownership of transit systems.
• http://www.1134.org/stan/ul/GM-et-al.html for some comments on this and also a number of references to other sources of comment.
• "General Motors' Destruction of California Transit Systems" provides some documentation of GM front companies and hostile takeovers of 'Key System' transit systems in California.
• Bradford C. Snell makes his case against GM.
• Full text of American Ground Transport (except footnotes) in .RTF format
• Remembering U.S. vs. National City Lines Paul Matus sums up U.S. vs National City lines 1949 and the Snell report
• The GM Conspiracy Myth
• http://www.baycrossings.com/Archives/2003/04_May/paving_the_way_for_buses_the_great_gm_streetcar_conspiracy.htm
• The Straight Dope: Did General Motors destroy the LA mass transit system?