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Death of Public Transportation in Term Paper
Pages:5 (1768 words)
Sources:6
Subject:Government
Topic:Public Transportation
Document Type:Term Paper
Document:#7602585
Although the Pacific Electric Railway Company is history, it is still remembered with nostalgia. However, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission has gotten actively engaged in reviving tramway transportation across a large sector of the previous Long Beach railway line (Cudahy 1990, 204).
Influenced by a series of factors such as geography, freeway construction, the Great Depression, and advancements in automobile industry, the Pacific Electric Railway Company had little chances to continue its domination over Los Angeles public transportation. Even from its early years the company did not seem to be promising regarding its effectiveness, given that it rapidly became outdated and people lost interest in traveling by trolley, as the alternatives appeared to be cheaper and faster.
Works cited:
Boarnet, Marlon G. And Crane, Randall. Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Cudahy, Brian J. Cash, Tokens, and Transfers: A History of Urban Mass Transit in North America (New York: Fordham University Press, 1990).
Gerlach, Arch C. Growth of El Segundo, California. Economic Geography
Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr., 1940), pp. 225-230.
Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Lavender, David. California: Land of New Beginnings (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1987).
St. Clair, David J. The Motorization of American Cities (New York: Praeger, 1986).
Zierer, Clifford M.…
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Works cited:
Boarnet, Marlon G. And Crane, Randall. Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Cudahy, Brian J. Cash, Tokens, and Transfers: A History of Urban Mass Transit in North America (New York: Fordham University Press, 1990).
Gerlach, Arch C. Growth of El Segundo, California. Economic Geography
Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr., 1940), pp. 225-230.
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