Los Angeles planned monorail map, 1954 mbta showing the unbuilt freeways of

showing the unbuilt freeways of downtown DC

Buffalo was at its zenith in 1910

which ran the remaining cable car lines

There was just one problem: it was a gigantic pain to get downtown

Charleston had fewer inhabitants than great metropolises as Sioux City

Los Angeles planned monorail map, 1954 mbta showing the unbuilt freeways ofImmediately after World War II, monorail technology was all the rage. In theory, it offered a space age solution to the problem of urban congestion, and was touted as a way to get people out of their cars. Gridlock, then as now, was a constant part of the Los Angeles landscape. This is the initial monorail proposal that went to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1954, as the old Red Car system was on its last legs. Designed in New York