Transit Progress Derailed : Ontario Hydro
Transit Progress Derailed : Ontario Hydro
Transit Progress Derailed : Ontario Hydro's Radial Electric Railway Scheme.cDavid R Spencer
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Author: David R Spencer
Page Count: 192 pages
Published Date: 27 May 2013
Publisher: DC Books,Canada
Publication Country: Montreal, QC, Canada
Language: English
ISBN: 9781897190777
File size: 15 Mb
Download Link: Transit Progress Derailed Ontario Hydro's Radial Electric Railway Scheme
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In the early 1900s, privately-generated electricity was the booming technology, and with it, profitable electric railways. Prosperous London, Ontario manufacturer (also Mayor and Conservative MLA), Adam Beck nevertheless believed in the benefits of a publicly-owned electricity grid and argued government-ownership could spread electric technology well beyond the use of a privileged elite and could cost people less.Beck s political acumen resulted in the 1906 creation of Ontario Hydro the world s first publicly-owned utility. Two years after public power first flowed through the wires to Berlin, Ontario, he mused aloud that what was really needed was to link the province s many municipalities through a series of electrically-powered railways to two core areas: Hamilton serving the western end of Lake Ontario and the burgeoning hub of Toronto. It never happened. An antagonistic Premier Ernest Drury deflected the issue to a Royal Commission, whose avowedly anti-radial chairman delivered a damning conclusion: the popularity of automobiles meant Beck s project was not financially feasible. David Spencer s study of power politics and skulduggery shows how dark provincial politics could be in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Perhaps current events demonstrate that hasn t changed?"
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Transit Progress Derailed : Ontario Hydro's Radial Electric Railway Scheme.cDavid R Spencer
Author: David R Spencer
Page Count: 192 pages
Published Date: 27 May 2013
Publisher: DC Books,Canada
Publication Country: Montreal, QC, Canada
Language: English
ISBN: 9781897190777
File size: 15 Mb
Download Link: Transit Progress Derailed Ontario Hydro's Radial Electric Railway Scheme
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In the early 1900s, privately-generated electricity was the booming technology, and with it, profitable electric railways. Prosperous London, Ontario manufacturer (also Mayor and Conservative MLA), Adam Beck nevertheless believed in the benefits of a publicly-owned electricity grid and argued government-ownership could spread electric technology well beyond the use of a privileged elite and could cost people less.Beck s political acumen resulted in the 1906 creation of Ontario Hydro the world s first publicly-owned utility. Two years after public power first flowed through the wires to Berlin, Ontario, he mused aloud that what was really needed was to link the province s many municipalities through a series of electrically-powered railways to two core areas: Hamilton serving the western end of Lake Ontario and the burgeoning hub of Toronto. It never happened. An antagonistic Premier Ernest Drury deflected the issue to a Royal Commission, whose avowedly anti-radial chairman delivered a damning conclusion: the popularity of automobiles meant Beck s project was not financially feasible. David Spencer s study of power politics and skulduggery shows how dark provincial politics could be in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Perhaps current events demonstrate that hasn t changed?"
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