Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Over the Weekend Assignment - Milwaukee Transit


Entering this assignment, I wanted to spend my time watching something interesting.  In the end, I picked the least interesting video of all time.  The video is called Milwaukee Transit and I picked this film because I’m from the Milwaukee area and thought it would be fascinating to look at a historical video of Milwaukee.  The entire eleven minutes was spent filming electrically wired trolleys, picking up and dropping people off at their stops.  Although the video was nowhere near appealing, it did give useful about past public transportation.  It showed that many people used the public transportation because of the availability in the city and to save money.  People that may not have known how Milwaukee citizens get from point A to point B without a car in 1957 can know understand how people went about that.  Public transportation is a result of information technology as mass transportation of goods became available at a more reasonable price for local government.  These goods being moved are people in this case, helps move production (labor) and consumption (consumer) to the places they needed to be.

https://archive.org/details/HMMilwaukeeTransport98203

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