Posted on 08/28/2009 5:31:42 PM PDT by Sugarpuddin88
Our dentist was in Los Angeles until he retired, shopped in Los Angeles until Fashion Square (now mostly torn down) was built in Santa Ana. Good Times, but now things have changed.
thank youuuu....., thank you verry verrrrry muuuch!!
LA has now done an about face, and is in a hurry to build serious public transport systems. They now have a subway system that runs from downtown to Hollywood and the Wilshire (business) district. There are plans to extend it further.
They’ve also built new electric street car lines, starting in the downtown area and working their way outwards. Some of the newer freeways have rail lines running down the center median areas, with platform stations and everything.
Well, I've never, ever bought one, but that's because their cars were crap. My dad owned two Chevrolets, and they both fell apart while virtually new. After that, he bought Fords, and so have I, at least mostly.
Note which American car company has NOT needed to be bailed out.
Those are the ones. I don’t think I ever rode one, though. The lines were being dismantled when I was very young, but enough of them still ran that I was able to form a memory of them.
Years before I was born we had what were called Doodlebugs. The major streets all around here had tracks running down the center of them that they ran on. I remember the tracks being torn out in the very early 60’s here(pre ‘64?).
Sad that L.A. lost the streetcars, but one thing that San Francisco did right was in keeping them. (San Francisco was run by Repubs until 1964, so the credit doesn’t go to Democrats alone.) Although we lost a couple lines over time, S.F. has managed to build completely new lines in the last 20 years. I’ve seen streetcars in other cities in the U.S. and Canada, so they’re not all gone. What does L.A. have in regards to light rail?
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