Low-flying DC-8 over L.A. today is collecting data
You had to be there, but that year was also a big deal for local public transit. L.A.’stook off along Western Avenue on August 18, 2023. That’s just over 100 years ago, if you’re counting.
Nowadays, Metro operates some 2,000 buses around Los Angeles. Looking back, what can we learn from the early days of public transit in LA? And what is the history behind the city's first bus line?editor, and Matthew Barrett, Director of the Transportation Research Library and Archive at Metro.about the first bus line that local traffic congestion was really bad back in August 1923. What climate was L.A.’s first bus entering into? Well, L.A.
Q: Buses were an entirely new thing back then. What was public perception like, were people resistant or receptive? It was really considered a novel, innovative thing to do. In this time, buses were considered more car-like than your streetcar. Early advertisements for buses tout things like, they had leather seats and really spacious aisles and you could board on the curb and you didn't have to go into the middle of the road like many streetcar stops.
They also used to make exact change on buses and trains. In 1968, they went to exact change , because it was too much of a temptation for some passengers to commit robberies of the operator's change belts. So, that indicates to me that things were pretty safe all the way up until maybe the late ‘60s.Q: I understand L.A. has long experimented with alternative fuel. To what extent was the bus system involved in that? We had gas electric buses in the ‘20s.
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