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WORLD’S COOLEST, COSTLIEST BUS RIDE

Started by districtweekly · 9 months ago

It’s official: No. 10 of the Futurliners–one of 12 oversized, streamlined buses General Motors built to haul its traveling promotional Parade of Progress shows in the 1940s and 1950s–is up for sale.
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  • Joe Weinstein

    9 months ago

    Yes, the Futurliner seems to have been a great Parade of Progress promo device, to assure us that benign and even wonderful GM was working hard for our great Future. But wasn't this the same GM that a few years later was quietly sabotaging effective public transit - rail and later even bus - everywhere in the USA that it could, esp. here in LA? And which continued its Trojan Horse tactics here in California just a few years ago by leasing and then recalling and destroying electric cars? The Futurliner is a memento of a consistent bait-n-switch track record: pre-emption of promising and practical technology, in order to derail it into mere nostalgiac might-have-been.
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