HomeUploadUpload DirectHotlinkRandomAbouttheme toggle

The Secret Scam of Streetcars

Views: 838
Meet the Thighmaster of urban public policy: Streetcars.

Municipal politicians all across the country have convinced themselves that this costly, clunky hardware can revitalize their flabby downtown economies.

That includes the fearless leaders of America's capital city. The DC government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade trying to erect a streetcar line in the up-and-coming neighborhood of H Street. The project has been an epic disaster, perfectly demonstrating how ill-suited streetcars are to modern urban life.

Watch the full video above, or click below for downloadable versions. And subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube channel for daily content like this.

Run time: About 5 mins.

Produced by Rob Montz, who also hosts. Camera by Todd Krainin. Graphics by Jason Keisling and Meredith Bragg.
@ReasonVidsfollow
Thumbnail for Indoor Smoking Ban Halts Scientific Research on Smoking (Nanny of the Month, June 2015)1:29
Indoor Smoking Ban Halts Scientific Research on Smoking (Nanny of the Month, June 2015)
ReasonVids
936 views
Thumbnail for Democratic Debate Cocktails1:15
Democratic Debate Cocktails
ReasonVids
714 views
Thumbnail for Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Cancel Student Debt Helps the Well-Off2:48
Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Cancel Student Debt Helps the Well-Off
ReasonVids
892 views
Thumbnail for The Best & Worst Moments of the Texas GOP Debate4:20
The Best & Worst Moments of the Texas GOP Debate
ReasonVids
888 views
Thumbnail for What’s the Point of Voting?7:27
What’s the Point of Voting?
ReasonVids
809 views
Thumbnail for Wed, 6/15!: Ask a Libertarian w Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch!0:31
Wed, 6/15!: Ask a Libertarian w Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch!
ReasonVids
897 views
Thumbnail for How Prohibition Made Pot More Potent: Q&A with Auburn University's Mark Thornton5:18
How Prohibition Made Pot More Potent: Q&A with Auburn University's Mark Thornton
ReasonVids
729 views
Thumbnail for Yale Professor Attacked Over Halloween Costumes Says We've Evolved To Get Along32:49
Yale Professor Attacked Over Halloween Costumes Says We've Evolved To Get Along
ReasonVids
995 views
Thumbnail for Remy: Bitcoin Billionaire2:55
Remy: Bitcoin Billionaire
ReasonVids
866 views
Thumbnail for CRISPR Babies, Biohacking, and Genomic Freedom with Josiah Zayner1:10:02
CRISPR Babies, Biohacking, and Genomic Freedom with Josiah Zayner
ReasonVids
698 views
Thumbnail for "America Has Ceased to Exist": Investment Guru Doug Casey on the Coming Economic Meltdown15:44
"America Has Ceased to Exist": Investment Guru Doug Casey on the Coming Economic Meltdown
ReasonVids
837 views
Thumbnail for Comedian Ahmed Albasheer: The U.S. Invasion Created a Thousand Saddams50:41
Comedian Ahmed Albasheer: The U.S. Invasion Created a Thousand Saddams
ReasonVids
835 views
Thumbnail for Why Copyright Law is so Mickey Mouse - And How to Fix It: Q&A with Jerry Brito4:50
Why Copyright Law is so Mickey Mouse - And How to Fix It: Q&A with Jerry Brito
ReasonVids
792 views
Thumbnail for Katie Couric Responds to Deceptive Editing Charges in Gun Documentary0:31
Katie Couric Responds to Deceptive Editing Charges in Gun Documentary
ReasonVids
814 views
Thumbnail for Libertarians Without Borders: An Interview with Tom Palmer about the Arab Spring9:15
Libertarians Without Borders: An Interview with Tom Palmer about the Arab Spring
ReasonVids
652 views
Thumbnail for Remy: Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke Anthony Weiner Parody)2:17
Remy: Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke Anthony Weiner Parody)
ReasonVids
839 views
Thumbnail for Well, here u go folks, the side effects of the covid are actually allergic reactions59:59
Well, here u go folks, the side effects of the covid are actually allergic reactions
AOU
1266 views
Thumbnail for Why Do So Many Need the Government's Permission to Work? — License to Work Ep15:13
Why Do So Many Need the Government's Permission to Work? — License to Work Ep1
IJvids
836 views
Thumbnail for Coming Sept. 30 to Reason.tv: Fiscal House of Horrors in 3D!0:41
Coming Sept. 30 to Reason.tv: Fiscal House of Horrors in 3D!
ReasonVids
837 views
Thumbnail for Restaurant in Spain has found a creative way to keep the muslims away0:12
Restaurant in Spain has found a creative way to keep the muslims away
AOUisgay
442 views
Thumbnail for Inside the Mises Caucus Takeover of the Libertarian Party30:43
Inside the Mises Caucus Takeover of the Libertarian Party
ReasonVids
1036 views
Thumbnail for Stossel: The Paid Leave Fairy Tale5:30
Stossel: The Paid Leave Fairy Tale
ReasonVids
818 views
Thumbnail for Nanny of The Month, May 2010: Anti-Raw-Milk Crusader Stephanie Rose1:14
Nanny of The Month, May 2010: Anti-Raw-Milk Crusader Stephanie Rose
ReasonVids
761 views
Thumbnail for Oakland Joins the World's Biggest Pot Shop to Battle the Feds—The End of the War on Weed?6:51
Oakland Joins the World's Biggest Pot Shop to Battle the Feds—The End of the War on Weed?
ReasonVids
957 views

points

Permalink
Reply
transportation, libertarianism (political ideology), reason (magazine), crony capitalism
TOS  •  Add Keywords  •  Donate  •   Analytics  •   DMCA  •   Puzzle