In the early 2000s (um…the Noughties? We still don’t have a good name for that decade, do we?), I, a Detroit-area kid with the auto industry in my blood, read a fascinating book. It was “The End of Detroit” by Micheline Maynard. One of the big points that stuck with me from that book was the Great American Streetcar Conspiracy — that the big players in the auto industry deliberately set up the United States’ dependency on personal transportation. Continue reading I keep living in cities that rip out their public transit systems