The undoing of Alfred Beach’s pneumatic subway may not have been technological or economic, but rather, as Glenn Reynolds says, that in a New York run by Boss Tweed’s Democrat machine, it offered insufficient opportunities for graft.
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Democrats, the same as they ever were .
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The History Guy didn’t mention that Ghostbusters 2 featured Beach’s Subway in a segment. Of course, ghosts were coming out of it, because, well, Ghostbusters.
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