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1. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › nobody-walks-inNobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That ...

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   Apr 26, 2013 · As strange as it may seem today, the automobile was seen by many as the progressive solution to the transportation problems of Los Angeles Matt Novak April 26, 2013

2. www.dailyhistory.org › Why_did_Los_Angeles_adoptWhy did Los Angeles adopt Cars instead of Mass Transit

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   Oct 5, 2021 · In Scott L. Bottles’s Los Angeles and the Automobile, he claims that widespread dissatisfaction with the companies managing the city’s mass transit encouraged the city and citizens to turn to automobiles to solve Los Angeles’s gridlock problems. Angelinos favored cars because mass transit had failed to meet their needs.

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   Apr 26, 2013 · Aside from Detroit there’s no American city more identified with the automobile than Los Angeles. ... solution to the transportation problems of Los Angeles in the 1920s. ... the transportation ...

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5. www.construction-physics.com › p › how-the-car-cameHow the Car Came to LA - by Brian Potter

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   Aug 10, 2023 · Over a period of less than 30 years, Los Angeles was transformed from a city with streetcar and train-based transportation to one where the car reigned supreme. And though Los Angeles had some unique features that made it a quicker adopter of cars than other US cities, in many ways the transformation of LA simply preceded similar transformations in the rest of the country.

6. metroprimaryresources.info › past-visions-of-losPast Visions of Los Angeles’ Transportation Future: 1940s

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   Oct 31, 2023 · The Los Angeles Department of City Planning’s 1941 Master Plan of Parkways noted that recent construction of the Arroyo Seco Parkway and Cahuenga Pass Freeway had already proven their worth. It deemed the term “parkway” as synonymous with “freeway” and “expressway,” differing only in the “character of the development.”.

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   Rise of the Automobile. 1920s-Present. The adaptation to the automobile in urban Los Angeles in the turn of the 20th century did not initially come easily. Early drivers had to fight the streetcars for the right to use the city streets. Early roads in downtown Los Angeles were severely narrow and already suffered from an abundance of streetcars ...

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   Was the automobile a solution to Los Angeles' transportation problems?

   • Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never Were | Smithsonian Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never Were As strange as it may seem today, the automobile was seen by many as the progressive solution to the transportation problems of Los Angeles

   Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never

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   How many cars were there in Los Angeles in the 1930s?

   • By 1930 there were over 1,500. This early and rapid adoption of the automobile in the region is the reason that L.A. was such a pioneer in the area of automotive-centric retailing. The car of the 1920s changed the way that people interacted with the city and how it purchased goods, for better and for worse.

   Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never

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   How did the Federal Road Act affect Los Angeles?

   • The Federal Road Act of 1916 would jumpstart the nation’s funding of road construction and maintenance, providing matching funding to states. But it was the Roaring Twenties that would set Los Angeles on an irreversible path as a city dominated by the automobile.

   Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never

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   How many cars were there in Los Angeles in 1920?

   • L.A.’s population of about 600,000 at the start of the 1920s more than doubled during the decade. The city’s cars would see an even greater increase, from 161,846 cars registered in L.A. County in 1920 to 806,264 registered in 1930. In 1920 Los Angeles had about 170 gas stations. By 1930 there were over 1,500.

   Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never

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   How many transit companies were there in the 1910s?

   • By the 1910s there were two major transit players left: The Los Angeles Streetway streetcar company (LARY and often known as the Yellow Cars) and the Pacific Electric Railway (PE and often known simply as the Red Cars).

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   Why were streetcars a problem in the 1910s?

   • Some of the streetcar’s problems were a result of the automobile crowding them out in the 1910s, congesting the roads and often causing accidents that made service unreliable. Separating the traffic of the autos, pedestrians and streetcars were seen as a priority that would not be realized until the late 20th century.

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9. capitolmuseum.ca.gov › exhibits › the-road-ahead-theHow The Automobile Shaped the Urban Environment

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   How The Automobile Shaped the Urban Environment. “Los Angeles, with an automobile for every three persons, has achieved the unique distinction of being ‘the most thoroughly motorized city in this world.”-. Rockwell Hunt, 1929. California is the world’s first “auto-civilization.”. No form of transportation has had a greater impact on ...