''Taken for a Ride'' was described by [[Caryn James]] as "an uneven documentary" whose "nostalgia for the streetcar system as a glorious, clean model of efficiency seems addled rather than convincing".<ref>{{cite news|last1=James|first1=Caryn|title=At the End of the Line: The Decline of Transit|url=httphttps://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/06/movies/at-the-end-of-the-line-the-decline-of-transit.html|accessdate=10 July 2017|publisher=New York Times|date=6 August 1996}}</ref> Academic Sara Sullivan gave the film a mixed rating in her 2010 review: "(''Taken for a Ride'') presents a compelling history of the streetcars and the battles over freeways in the 1970s," but that the film "feels incomplete, with certain aspects needing to be fleshed out and other links made."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sullivan|first1=Sara|title=Taken for a Ride (Review)|journal=Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies|date=2010|volume=40|issue=2|pages=142–144|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/film_and_history/v040/40.2.sullivan.pdf|accessdate=14 January 2015}}</ref>
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==External links==
*[httphttps://www.pbs.org/pov/takenforaride/ ''Taken for a Ride''] at the PBS P. O. V. website
*{{IMDb title|id=0236785|title=Taken for a Ride}}
*[http://culturechange.org/issue10/taken-for-a-ride.htm Article on the film at Culture Change magazine]
