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As an aside, I would just like to point out that the reason for the lowering of quantity and quality of other types of transportation, trolleys in particular, was entirely due to government and had nothing to do with market forces.

Although, its almost a moot point since the entire transportation infrastructure of the United States is state run.

[/ QUOTE ] The reason that the quality of the government provided transportation declined was because of the invention of the car; if nobody had a car, then politicans would have to keep these means of transportation running effectively, or people who used this kind of transportation (everybody) would not vote for them.

And, if the "transportation infrastructure" was/is not state run but instead of market forces, than quantity and quality would still decrease. The market forces/gov't dichotomy here is a false one; market forces effect how and what the gov't does (therefore, to claim that because the gov't did something does not show that that action "has nothing to do with market forces"), and if the gov't didn't run all the other means of transportation (which it actually doesn't) then inequality in access would still have made the poor worse off.