The bus company blamed televisionSourced
Evening riders were disappearing.
The company pointed at TV.
A transit company in Worcester, Massachusetts, cut off-peak service on 22 of 33 routes in 1952. It claimed people stayed home on nights, Sundays and holidays because of television. Rising car ownership was also reducing transit ridership at the time.
The competition, it said,
was in the living room.
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