Mass_Transit

Mass Transit Since the early 1900’s the master plan of mass transit has been fumbled throughout the greater Los Angeles area. According to Robert P. Sechler, “People have been talking about and planning rapid transit in the Los Angeles region for more than seventy-five years. In that span of time, twenty or so proposals have been generated…” Sechler organized an overview of these twenty proposals into seven, sometimes overlapping "eras," and by focusing attention on the most important plans, it is possible to lead one rather quickly through a meaningful overview of what was, until a short time ago, Los Angeles’s greatest non-success story” (Sechler 1). These seven era’s: Private Capital, Grand Design, Intermodal Sketch Planning, Autopia, Futurism, The Second Coming of Grand Design, and Alternatives Analysis give us a brief history on the infamous demise of the mass transit in the city of angles. In today’s society rail rapid transit is an immense public expense. Prior to this modern expense in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s rapid transit lines were privately financed. “During this first era, "the era of private capital", Los Angeles itself came tantalizingly close to acquiring rapid transit at no transit, rapid, los, angeles, era, sechler, mass, system, idea, transportation, time, planning, plan, rail, public, city, been, years, took, red, project, people, main, grand, freeway, design, construction, cars, came, about, the, very, through, second, private