There's a fun and fine book, "Romance of the Rails", about passenger trains in the US. Mostly what I remember is how every step of urban mass transit, from horse cars to horse rail cars to steam and electric rail cars, went through three stages: first reviled by the authorities and regulated near to death, then approved as a great tax revenue generator, then subsidized and mandated as new technology threatened it.
You had me at "Congress Should Stop Subsidizing..."
There's a fun and fine book, "Romance of the Rails", about passenger trains in the US. Mostly what I remember is how every step of urban mass transit, from horse cars to horse rail cars to steam and electric rail cars, went through three stages: first reviled by the authorities and regulated near to death, then approved as a great tax revenue generator, then subsidized and mandated as new technology threatened it.