1948: Actress Virginia Mayo, Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher E. Bowron, and other dignitaries launch North Figueroa Motor Coach Line Number 25. The new bus service
1961: The California Toll Bridge Authority sells $5,000,000 in revenue bonds for construction of a suspension bridge over the main channel of Los Angeles Harbor
1961: Los Angeles – Long Beach rail service is replaced by buses. The first “brand-new” Dreamliner coach departs the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Depot
1949: The Santa Ana (I-5) Freeway opens between Soto Street and Eastman Avenue in the Boyle Heights district of Los Angeles. The Santa
1960: The last two sections of the Ventura Freeway through the San Fernando Valley are completed. Governor Edmund G. Brown and numerous officials at the
1997: The Los Angeles Council approves the merger of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Transit Police force with the Los Angeles Police Department.
2005: Metro launches a new photo-less Student Fare Card program for K-12 students. The new streamlined process eliminates the need for an application and the
1996: The 25×80-foot “City of Dreams / River of History” mural is completed at the Union Station East Portal. Richard Wyatt, one of Los Angeles’
2006: The California Transportation Commission approves the allocation of $208 million in Traffic Congestion Relief Program funding for the Exposition Light Rail Transit Project, providing
1995: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority partners with McDonald’s to test market the sale of discounted transit tokens at ten corporate-owned restaurants in Los