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A packed Baltimore trolley illustrates the ups and downs of US public transit

  • Written by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College
A packed Baltimore trolley illustrates the ups and downs of US public transitWorkers on a trolley at 5 p.m. in Baltimore, April 1943.Marjory Collins/Library of Congress, CC BY-ND

Since the 1940s, there has been a broad shift away from public transit across the U.S., and service has declined in many cities, including New York, Boston, Denver, Orlando and St. Louis. A look back at the last national mass transit boom helps...

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