We've uploaded a bunch of "new" historical photos from the 1984 Olympics on our Flickr account. See the photostream here (more uploads to come!): www.flickr.com/photos/metro...
1999: the first Automated Passenger Counter (APC) is installed on 60 LA Metro buses. The APCs work in conjunction with GPS software to pinpoint the location of each stop and count the number of boardings.
Here's the flickr link to that horsecar photographs. I love this old photograph showing horsecar tracks on Main street in downtown Los Angeles, around 1875.
1988: SCRTD and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission sign a pact that ensures that qualified minority- and women-owned businesses can now compete in building Metro Rail projects.
An interesting interview between Metro Magazine's (no affiliation) Executive Editor and David Grannis, Executive Director of Zero Emission Transit, the group trying to build the LA Aerial Rapid Transit (LA ART) Gondola.
1964: De Leuw, Cather & Company present to the City of Beverly Hills their final report on geometric design, alignment analysis and cost estimates for a proposed Beverly Hills Freeway.
The Riverside Freeway The Reseda Freeway in the SFV The Pacific Coast Freeway The Whitnall Freeway in the SFV The Sunland Freeway The Slauson Freeway The Industrial Freeway 😱😱
In Beverly Hills, the engineers outline two possible freeway routes: one generally following Sunset Blvd and the other generally following Santa Monica Blvd (see the two solid lines through BH).
But also of note, the number of other planned freeways throughout Los Angeles County including...
