Cars and Factory Work (was Cars and Victorians)

[Richard Marens]

one distinction between the GM/LA case and the Greenwich village situation
might have been public opinion.  Before the big boom, LA was a great place
to drive, great weather, new (free) roads, cheap gas, from what I
understand owning a car was an aspiration that cut accross class.
Manhattan of course, is vastly different.  While people in LA probably new
that they were being ripped off, they probably didn't didn't care enough
to mobilize, in particular the people with political experience and savvy
who could always find parking places.