SFpark Overview from SFpark on Vimeo. You may have heard recent stories about San Francisco’s bold experiment with demand-based parking, a two-year pilot project that launched two weeks ago (see links to stories at end of this post). This new…
Category: L.A. Transit & Transportation History
L.A. Transit & Transportation History
A.D.A. Turns 20: Transportation And The Americans With Disabilities Act
Image via Flickr While everyone was celebrating the 20th anniversary of rail in Los Angeles last week, another important anniversary was approaching without much fanfare: the Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990. Twenty years ago today, the ADA was signed…
Blue Line At 20: Welcoming The First Metro Rail Project And Its Continued Success
As we discussed last week during our look back at early rail links between Los Angeles and Long Beach, Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of the Metro Blue Line. When the light-rail cars began rolling on Saturday, July 14, 1990,…
Blue Line At 20: Looking Back At Early Service Between Los Angeles And Long Beach (1902-1961)
Pacific Electric Railway On First Day Of Operation to Long Beach, July 4, 1902 (via Metro Library Flickr) Next week, Los Angeles’ first contemporary rail project turns 20 years old. The Metro Blue Line running between Los Angeles and Long…
What CicLAvia Might Look Like: Scenes From "Oaklavia" And Other Car-Free Street Events
Image via Sunday Streets SF In just a couple of months, Los Angeles will begin an experiment with temporary street closure of streets for CicLAvia (promotional video can be found here). Inspired by Ciclovia, a weekly event in Bogota, Colombia,…
1922 Los Angeles: Unprecedented Growth, Congestion And A Plan For Relief
We recently discovered a fascinating 1922 PhD. dissertation from University of California, Berkeley that is a treasure-trove of various maps and charts. J.M. Terrass wrote his Study and Plan of Relief of the Street Traffic Congestion in the City of…
Lost Parkways Of Los Angeles: The 1946 Proposed Interregional, Regional And Metropolitan Plan
In the long history of transit planning in Los Angeles, early documents focused on relieving congestion with new street plans. Shortly after phenomenal growth in both area and population before World War II, various studies and reports outlined ambitious plans…
Transit Agency Cooperation In Mid-Century L.A. (Or Lack Thereof)…
How do we increase the appeal of public transit ridership in Los Angeles? Recent Los Angeles Times columns (here, here, and here) suggest that streamlining transfers and passes within and across agencies could go a long way to make transit…
The “Original Downtown Regional Connector?”: The 1954 Underground Bus Network Maps
Click on the map to open it, and again to enlarge it. We wanted to follow up on yesterday’s post about the proposed underground express bus network from the 1954 Supplemental Study Of Mass Transportation: Express Busses In Subways. The…
The 1954 Plan For Los Angeles’ Underground Bus Network (Yes, Underground!)
As we proposed in our inaugural welcome post, our goal is to provide context for current transportation issues as well as to share the rich resources in our collections. Our ability to digitize items and share them online provides access…