On the March 13, 2015 edition of 99% Invisible:
When Eric Molinsky lived in Los Angeles, he kept hearing this story about a bygone transportation system called the Red Car. The Red Car, he was told, had been this amazing network of streetcars that connected the city—until a car company bought it, dismantled it, and forced a dependency on freeways. But like most legends, the one that Eric heard about the Red Car is not entirely accurate. The Red Car wasn’t the victim of a conspiracy. The Red Car was the conspiracy.
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