REASON TV ON THE SECRET SCAM OF STREETCARS: How to Sell a 100-Year-Old Technology as the Future of Transportation:

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“Meet the Thighmaster of urban public policy: streetcars,” proffers Reason TV’s Rob Montz, who, other than borrowing one of Frank Gorshin’s Riddler suits from the old Batman TV series, delivers a spot-on indictment of the graft and Barack to the Future mentality that, as he notes, causes “municipal politicians across the country” to convince themselves “that this costly, clunky hardware can revitalize their flabby downtown economies.”

Or as a CATO report described such thinking a few years ago, “The Desire Named Streetcar.”

On Twitter today, Iowahawk, who spotted the video, quips:

But that’s really an insult to ’93 Hondas, which as Montz notes, have far more maneuverability than a giant streetcar — as do taxis and municipal buses — but there’s not as much room for graft, given that the infrastructure for these vehicles doesn’t need to be built from scratch. And note who makes several prominent appearances pimping for more streetcars: Obama’s former transportation secretary, RINO Ray LaHood, the father of Darin LaHood who is running for Congress in the Illinois seat vacated by disgraced former Rep. Aaron Schock. Darin isn’t responsible for his father’s disasters, but still, why take a chance? Vote Mike Flynn for Congress.