Public Policy and Private Choice: Mass Transit and the Automobile in Chicago between the Wars

Paul Barrett

Business History Review, 1975, vol. 49, issue 4, 473-497

Abstract: Public policy, grounded in the conception of urban transit as a private business and of the automobile as a public good, played a crucial role in the decline of public transportation and the triumph of the automobile in Chicago.

Date: 1975
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