but the County Engineer did as much work as possible to make sure that highways were built instead
Detroiters got around the region by train (we'd recognize it today as a form of electric light rail) and travel times would be competitive with modern driving
provided comprehensive mass transit for the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St
Toronto's subway system expansion stalled in the late 1970s and early 1980s
only to discover that the automobile had downsides
Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway upgrade plan, 1948 Size:24x36 but the County Engineer didEven through its declining years, the old Red Car system was incredibly extensive. Thus, in 1948, the LA Chamber of Commerce and a Who's Who of LA power brokers Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the City Attorney, a laundry list of corporate executives came up with a plan to take over the Red Car system and to run trains in the median of the freeway system which was then on the drawing board. Then as now, traffic sucked in LA, and it was clear that buses and