- From his manifesto to various public officials warning of the imminent demise of streetcar and trolley systems in their communities: "You will realize too late that the electric railway is unquestioningly more comfortable, more reliable, safer and cheaper to use than the bus system. But what can you do about it once you have permitted the tracks to be torn up? Who do you think you can find to finance another deluxe transit system for your city?"
- If it's not improvement, its not progress.
- "This is an urgent warning to each and every one of you that there is a careful, deliberately planned campaign to swindle you out of your most important and valuable public utilities - your Electric Railway System. You will realize too late that the electric railway is unquestioningly more comfortable, more reliable, safer and cheaper to use than the bus system. But what can you do about it once you have permitted the tracks to be torn up? Who do you think you can find to finance another deluxe transit system for your city?" - from his 1946 36-page manifesto to "The Mayors; the City Manager; the City Transit Engineer; the members of the Committee on Mass-Transportation ad the Tax-Payers and the Riding Citizens of your Community" in dozens of American cities, a document linking National City Lines and its subsidiaries to parent owners Firestone Tires, General Motors, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum and Mack Truck, which eventually led the federal government to prosecute and fine those guilty.
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