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	Podcast:		99% Invisible
	Episode:		583- The Lost Subways of North America
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:26:26
	Publish Date:		2024-05-22 00:28:15
	Description:		Los Angeles actually used to have a massive electric railway system in the early 1900s, called the Red Car. Jake Berman, the author of The Lost Subways of North America, tells us about how, time after time, when North American cities seemed just inches away from having a robust, utopian future of fast, reliable, and convenient public transportation systems, something gets in the way. That thing is sometimes dysfunctional local politics, sometimes it’s bureaucracy. Sometimes it’s the way our infrastructure favors cars over mass transit, and too often, it’s racism. 583- The Lost Subways of North America
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