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Taken for a Ride
Why does America have the worst public transit in the industrialized world, and the most freeways? Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets. The highway lobby then pushed through Congress a vast network of urban freeways that doubled the cost of the Interstates, fueled suburban development, increased auto dependence, and elicited passionate opposition.
Seventeen city freeways were stopped by citizens who would become the leading edge of a new environmental movement. With investigative journalism, vintage archival footage and candid interviews, Taken for a Ride presents a revealing history of our cities in the 20th century that is also a meditation on corporate power, city form, citizen protest and the social and environmental implications of transportation. Taken for a Ride was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
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John Anderson
Newsday
full review
Bill Marvel
Dallas Morning News
full review
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EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY! Though this material has been known to scholars
for some time, Taken for a Ride pays careful attention to the
historical record and uses exciting vintage footage. It should make
this rather sordid story known to a far wider public. It is highly
recommended for classroom use.
Professor Richard Schott
LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
A
TRAGICALLY IMPORTANT STORY. This valuable documentary should be seen by
anyone interested in the crises of America's cities and suburbs.
James Kunstler
Author, The Geography of Nowhere
FASCINATING...Taken
for a Ride offers strong evidence. It raises unsettling historical
questions about why public transit has let the public down.
Caryn James
New York Times
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About Jim Klein |
| Jim Klein has been an independent filmmaker since 1969. He has been active in the American independent film community ever since. Along with his partner, Julia Reichert, he made the first documentary about women from a feminist perspective, Growing Up Female; one of the first oral history films, the Oscar-nominated Union Maids; the first film to challenge government policies on heroin addiction, Methadone: An American Way Of Dealing; and the first documentary film on American Communists, Seeing Red, which brought their second Academy Award nomination. His first solo film, Letter to the Next Generation, was released in May 1990 and premiered on the PBS series, P.O.V. Jim has just completed a new work, Taken For a Ride, co-made with Martha Olson. A look at General Motors' role, over a fifty year span, in destroying public transportation and pushing freeways into the very center of cities, the film premiered on PBS. |
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