This video describes the rise and fall of Pacific Electric, Los Angeles' famous former streetcar system that shaped the city's present built environment.

00:0001:05 Introduction
01:0611:06 The Rise and Fall of Pacific Electric
11:0714:17 Present Impacts and Conclusion

Source links:
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/551/didgeneralmotorsdestroythelamasstransitsystem/
doi.org/10.1177/004208169102700104
la.curbed.com/2015/7/30/9935072/redcarairlineexpolinehistory
www.railswest.com/histpe.html
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/09/23/longdeadstreetcarsstillshapelaneighborhoods/chronicles/whowewere/
www.jstor.org/stable/41171454?seq=1page_scan_tab_contents

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