Yes, if they had invested in upgrading the P-E instead of tearing it out, L.A. wouldn't have anything like the traffic issues it does now.
A great Red Car story: In 1943, my father-in-law was 9-years-old and lived with his folks in Costa Mesa. One day, his mother gave him some money and told him to go to Sears in Santa Ana and buy some new pants for school. Again, he was 9 years old. He took the Red Car into Santa Ana, but didn't find any pants he liked, so he got back on the Red Car, rode all the way into downtown L.A. and went to the big Sears store on Broadway, bought his pants and headed home, without his mother knowing where he'd been until she saw the sales receipt. Let a 9-year-old try that today.... Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "cat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:18 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 37605] Re: Another distraction build ... > > Paul McCool wrote: >> Just the other day I found a site online that had a map of the >> Pacific Electric rail system from the '40's. The P-E was The Los >> Angeles equivalent of a subway, but above ground. > > And still considered the best public transit system ever in operation > by professionals in the field. Too bad it was torn up and destroyed so > the far less efficient buses could run over it's bones. At least it's > old Exposition line is coming back under track. > > cat > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
