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Southern California Transit Advocates is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, development and improvement of public transportation in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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Historical Materials on Southern California Transportation To encourage various perspectives we present links to historic articles and other materials on Southern California transportation while noting Southern California Transit Advocates presents them merely to foster discussion and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed therein. A 1976 article by economic historian George Hilton on the demise of the Red Cars: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~pgordon/transit6.html Tom Wetzel on the demise of the Red Cars: http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/pedemise.htm Metro Library History Archive page on its website includes digitized versions of historic maps, photos and documents plus other useful resources: http://www.metro.net/about/library/archives/ Primary Resources is a blog by the Metro Library that taps into the library’s vast collection of resources to provide images, videos and documents along with insightful commentary from Metro’s librarian: http://metrotransportationlibrary.blogspot.com/ Metro Library presentation to the Los Angeles Regional Planning History Group -- New Mass Transit Plans – Los Angeles 1951 to the Present: http://www.metro.net/images/HuntingtonLibrary.pdf Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation digital collection: http://www.larhf.org/collections/index.html Transportation Topics and Tales - Milestones in Transportation History in Southern California: http://ladot.lacity.org/pdf/PDF100.pdf Los Angeles in the 1900s: http://www.ulwaf.com/LA-1900s/index04.html Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Archives: http://www.publicpurpose.com/lactc-ix.htm Historic LA Rail Planning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717393@N05/sets/72157623039992745/ So.CA.TA Vice-President Charles Hobbs has begun a blog on the history of transportation in Southern California, "More Than Red Cars": http://www.morethanredcars.com Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society online archive of Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway imagery, information, artifacts, ephemera and more: http://peryhs.org/ |