Tom Bradley:  I dare say you could go around this city and you would n't find more than a dozen people who were aware there was such a charge of conspiracy .
Morley Safer - Correspondent: The conspiracy did n't hit Los Angeles until the end of World War 2 , a month after the new owners took over the transit company . Two hundred thirty - seven new buses arrived ; this followed a year in which the electric lines had made a million and a half dollars and carried over 200 million passengers . By the end of GM 's motorization campaign in _ 1955 _ , almost 90% of the streetcars were gone from from American cities , including Los Angeles .