πšƒπšŠπš›πšŠπšœ π™Άπš›πšŽπšœπšŒπš˜πšŽ πŸš‡Aug 25, 2023

Walt Disney World has significantly better transit than most cities in the US.

Its 12-train-set monorail, 325 buses would make it the 16th most ridden transit system in the nation.

America's fantasy world, it turns out, is a place you can get around without getting into a car. 🧡

Stephanie GalaitsiAug 25, 2023
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"While real trolleys languish for lack of patronage...people flock to Disneyland to ride fake trolleys."
β€”historian Kenneth Jackson, author of Crabgrass Frontier.
Aug 25, 2023 at 7:32pmWeb
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The real American Dream:

Transit that works, at Disneyland.

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I dig deeper into the relationship between Fantasylands like Disney and Vegas and transit in this Straphanger dispatch:

https://straphanger.substack.com/p/arriving-in-las-vegas

Arriving in Las Vegas.

And leaving, rather abruptly.

Straphanger, from Taras Grescoe
Show threadInken Paper πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈAug 26, 2023
@straphanger you can also ride that kind of train in Vancouver or Toronto. Montreal sort of counts too probably. Calgary is the only other city out of these that has a long-functioning rail transit system. all of the other cities in canada ripped out their local rails in 1959, if the companies owning them hadn't already been driven to failure.
Show threadI ❀️ PlacemakingAug 25, 2023
@straphanger If you look at the dedication of that book, Jackson tragically lost a son to an automobile accident, which always shapes my reading of it.