Taken for a Ride (1996)
Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways?
How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.
- Date of release
- 1996-08-06
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jim Klein, Martha Olson
Casting
- Jim Klein — Narrator
- Renee Montagne — Narrator
- Bradford Snell — Himself
- Joe Alfonsie — Himself
- Joseph L. Alioto — Himself
- Jim Holzer — Himself
- Barney Larrick — Himself
Interesting facts
Taken for a Ride is a documentary film by Martha Olson and Jim Klein about the Great American Streetcar Scandal. The 55-minute film was first broadcast on August 6, 1996 on the PBS television series POV.
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