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Moses Hazeltine Sherman (December 3, 1853 – September 9, 1932) was an American land developer who built the Phoenix Street Railway in Phoenix, Arizona, and streetcar systems that would become the core of the Los Angeles Railway and part of the Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, California, and owned and developed property in areas such as the westside of Los Angeles, the San Fernando ...
The service was initially launched as a $40 one-way service between the Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] [2] In 2008, the company started offering $5 trips, but prices later increased to $25–40. [1] [3] The advent of the $5 fares coincided with the cessation of Megabus service from LA to the Bay Area. [4]
Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21547-8. Holliday, J. S. (1999). Rush for riches; gold fever and the making of California. Oakland, California, Berkeley and Los Angeles: Oakland Museum of California and University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21401-3. Moody, John (1919).
The nearest deep-water seaport was San Francisco Bay, and the rapidly growing town of San Francisco became the home for bankers who financed exploration for gold. The Gold Rush brought the world to California. By 1855, some 300,000 "Forty-Niners" had arrived from every continent; many soon left, of course—some rich, most not so fortunate. A ...
The percentage of population using public transport in Los Angeles is lower than other large U.S. cities such as San Francisco, Chicago and New York, but similar to or higher than other western U.S. cities such as Portland and Denver. 63.8% of public transportation commuters in the City of Los Angeles in 2006 were non-white, 75.1% were Hispanic ...
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), a government agency was formed in 1951 to conduct a feasibility study for a 45-mile (72 km) monorail line which would have connected Long Beach with the Panorama City district in the San Fernando Valley, including a two-mile (3.2 km) tunnel beneath Downtown Los Angeles.
Other regions of Los Angeles County, including the Antelope Valley and the eastern San Gabriel Valley, are served by separate bus operators, which receive some funding from Metro. As of June 2023 [update] , the Metro Bus system includes 117 routes, serving over 11,000 bus stops. [ 12 ]
1903: Southern Pacific gains 50% control of the Pacific Electric system in Los Angeles. [18] March 8, 1904: SP opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, UT for the railroad's mainline. [19] March 20, 1904: The Montalvo cutoff and the Santa Susana Tunnel shorten the Coast Line between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara ...