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By the s the streetcars were already suffering from widespread public dissatisfaction. The lines were seen as increasingly undependable and riders complained about crowded trains. Separating the traffic of the autos, pedestrians and streetcars were seen as a priority that would not be realized until the late 20th century. The private streetcar companies refused to improve their service in a time of recession and as a result drove more and more people to alternatives like the jitney and buying their own vehicle.

But it was the Roaring Twenties that would set Los Angeles on an irreversible path as a city dominated by the automobile. County in to , registered in In Los Angeles had about gas stations. By there were over 1, This early and rapid adoption of the automobile in the region is the reason that L. The car of the s changed the way that people interacted with the city and how it purchased goods, for better and for worse. Just over the hills that I can see from my apartment building lie oil derricks.

Strange metal robots in the middle of L.

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Oil wells at Venice Beach on January 26, Source: Paradise Promoted by Tom Zimmerman. Los Angeles would see and turn down many proposals for expanded public transit during the first half of the 20th century. In the Pacific Electric built a short-running subway in the city but it did little to fix the congestion problems that were happening above ground.

In there was a big push to build over 50 miles of elevated railway in Los Angeles. As strange as it may seem today, the automobile was seen by many as the progressive solution to the transportation problems of Los Angeles in the s.

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The privately owned rail companies were inflating their costs and making it impossible for the city to buy them out. Angelenos were reluctant to to subsidize private rail, despite their gripes with service. Meanwhile, both the city and the state continued to invest heavily in freeways.

People were again moving to the city in droves looking for work in this artificial port town that was fueling the war effort on the west coast. But at the end of the war the prospects for mass transit in L. A report issued to the Transit Authority acknowledged the unique challenges of the region, citing its low density, high degree of car ownership and current lack of any non-bus mass rapid transit in the area as major hurdles.

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The July issue of Fortune magazine saw postwar expansion brought on by the car as an almost insurmountable challenge for the urban planner of the future:. As a generation of city and regional planners can attest, it is no simple matter to draw up a transit system that will meet modern needs. In fact, some transportation experts are almost ready to concede that the decentralization of urban life, brought about by the automobile, has progressed so far that it may be impossible for any U.

At the same time, it is easy to show that highways are highly inefficient for moving masses of people into and out of existing business and industrial centers. Somewhat interestingly, that proposal to the L. Longtime Los Angeles resident Ray Bradbury never drove a car. A year ago this month I walked to his house which was about a mile north of my apartment uphill and arrived dripping in sweat.

Bradbury was a big proponent of establishing monorail lines in Los Angeles. But as Bradbury wrote in a opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times , he believed the Metro line from downtown to Santa Monica which now stretches to Culver City and is currently being built to reach Santa Monica was a bad idea. He believed that his s effort to promote monorails in Los Angeles made a lot more sense financially. But at the end of that year nothing was done. But admittedly the new Metro stop in Culver City has changed my life.

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Opened in June of last year, it has completely transformed the way that I interact with my environment. And from Downtown to Hollywood in about the same amount of time. Today, the streetcars may be returning to downtown L. They made the process so easy and their online forms made sure we had the exact music we wanted. They played a variety of music for the entire wedding to enjoy.

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The entire evening was made so much fun and the band had so many people jamming out on the dance floor all evening. People are still taking about how much fun the band was. Thank you again to The Lucky Devils for such a great evening and making sure our day was perfect. Lucky Devils Band is more than just a wedding band they are fabulous entertainers. When they perform at my events, the dancefloor is always packed! They are very easy to work with, professional, personable, and responsive. Jefferson is the BEST!

A great team player and an amazing emcee! He will bend over backward to make the event a super success.

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