The Interstate Commerce Commission was the first regulatory commission in U.S. history and was established due to mounting public indignation in the 1880s against railroad malpractices and abuses.
William Sutton and Emil Alexander established the Laclede Car Company, a short-lived manufacturer of electric streetcars, in 1883 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Roughly 100 people were killed on November 1, 1918, when a Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. train crashed after taking a curve too fast underneath the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush and Ocean avenues.
The New Jersey Legislature passed the New Jersey Public Transportation Act of 1979 in July 1970, creating NJ Transit to “acquire, operate and contract for transportation service in the public interest.”
