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When Financial Impresario O. Roy Chalk purchased the D.C. Transit System in 1956, streetcars still rumbled through the nation's capital, passengers sweltered or froze in antiquated buses and the books were in chaos. Chalk promised a new deal, then set about proving that he was as adept at running an essential public service into the ground as the man he bought it from, Wheeler-Dealer Louis Wolfson. Things did get better for a time before they got worse, but today Washington's transit system is a shambles, threatened with financial crisis, a crippling drivers' strike...
Thus shorn of its capital, D.C. Transit began to fall apart. The once-new buses deteriorated into rattletraps: often their air conditioning failed, windows jammed shut, and ripped seats were unrepaired. The drivers threw away their timetables and bunched their runs so that they could travel empty...
...General Motors ever lobbied in Washington against funds for mass transit...
SMITH: I believe we have supported mass transit in the most effective way I know-of appearing before the Congress down there and urging the enactment of the mass transit bill...
Referring back to Mr. Lundine's testimony at that time he also told them of our transportation research section in the GM laboratories, which has been very active in taking an overall systems approach to the solution of transit travel. We are at this time undertaking for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development a study on urban and mass transportation...