Definitely agree. The soon-to-be-constructed East San Fernando Valley transit corridor is going to pass through my neighborhood, and run on an old Red Car route. I'm still salty about its dismantlement, but hopefully we have brighter (and more expansive) public transit days ahead if all the plans go well

​@@sisigpapi The Pacific Electric VanNuys Line ! 😎

The old Santa Ana right of way is probably going to become a Metro line and people are complaining about it. Which sucks because it was there first but then also it was gone. I saw a thing where people said nobody down here works in downtown LA!" Yeah I wonder why?

And people in Pasadena still doing so in 2023?

​@@CancelKZfaq026No; they now take what's called the "A" line, from Long Beach to Azusa.

I'm relatively new to LA and I always love knowing who the streets have been named after

Eat fresh!

Louie, you seein' this!? 😊😂

And the subway portal at first/second/Beverly Blvd. has been covered up by a housing project, and also sealed with a concrete wall.

Or just wait until the next big earthquake, which'll provide an opportunity to leave the "Hitler strips" in ruins while the rapid transit rail lines receive priority for whatever damage repair needed.

Yet somehow they wanted the bus....

That's why no mass transit in the world today functions without government subsidies.

@@simonrunge6323 Transit lines do make money in Hong Kong and in some cases in Japan. They make money from owning land near the transit lines. The Trolley operators and 19th Century railroad barons realized early on that real estate was the real money maker. Progressive politicians tried to destroy this business TOD model but now we realize that it is necessary to make a great system work.

@@simonrunge6323 Does the fire department make money? Does the police department make money? Does the streets department make money? Those things are needed and paid for by the public. Same for mass transit.

​@@Jeff-uj8xiThe interstate STUPERHIGHWAYS sure as hell don't earn one red cent, but are oversubsidized with literal hand-over-fist bucketfuls of blank checks from all governmental levels.

+ David Williams What REALLY killed the municipal traction interests was unfair legislation aimed at forcing the electric municipal railways to pave the streets in which they had trackage AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE without assistance from any governmental levels. In addition to what you mentioned, there was also anti-rail legislation passed in congress and signed by FDR, but was created by and lobbied for by the automotive industry and energy corporations; the Public Utilities Holding Company Trust Act of 1935 forced ALL electrified railroads, from municipal to mainline, to sell their electrical generating stations to established utilities which immediately increased the usage rates, forcing many street rail transit systems to purchase buses which immediately proved their inferiority in moving passengers. The mainline railroads were forced to purchase diesel locomotives which quickly ate into their profits; plenty of these went bankrupt due to forced dieselization, as internal combustion engines need much more maintenance than electric motors. The killer line here?! Most of the diesel equipment was manufactured by none other than General Motors; these bastards crowded out other diesel locomotive manufacturers, like Baldwin, ALCO, and Fairbanks-Morse by flooding the market with huge quantities of cheaply-made products which needed constant repair; this bound the railroads to General Motors being their main locomotive supplier. On too of all this, both General Motors and Ford were in Nazi Germany, assisting Hitler with his war efforts!

Yupp

Can you (or ANYONE) tell me when a stuperhighway ever operated in the black?!

SSHHEEEITT! lots of movies were made in that tunnel; "Predator 2" being just one of them....

Lol what

Connections like this are no brainer. Plus you have the taxi lobby against such one seat projects . Those fares for cabs are big business. And GM and National City Lines did it. They made billions on it and fought the return of rail in the early years. The Koch's just fought the rail battles in Nashville which they won. And Phoenix which they lost. The public already fell in love with passenger rai in Phoenix.

What can POSSIBLY happen in the (hopefully near) future is that when the Purple Line is extended past the Westwood VA hospital, continue it down Wilshire to then curve south onto (actually under) Lincoln Blvd., eventually going elevated just south of interstate 10. The line would then terminate in a huge station above parking lot "C". Hopefully,such a project will be very seriously considered; it'll provide the very well-needed one-seat connection, using trains capable of handling the high-capacity crowding, unlike light rail....

I used to use Red Cars as an example of not being too harsh on folks of the past from what we learned since then, what C. S. Lewis called chronological snobbery. Growing up in Garden Grove. As 14 year-Olds we used to mockingly say that if you wash your car, it won't rain, it just floods. Garden Grove didn't consider that as farms were turned into a city, there has to be a system for rain water to drain with the farms gone.

More precisely, it was both the automotive industry AND the energy corporations.

Bus advocates also sold them as being more flexible in their routes than streetcars, which needed fixed rails to operate. That's partly true, but busses running on city streets isn't rapid transit. Pacific Electric's advantage over busses was the dedicated right-of-way over much of its lines. That's why you can get around San Francisco on Muni Metro even in areas gridlocked with cars.