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Uber announces UberX, a service that uses lower-cost hybrid vehicles. [9] 2013: April: Product: Uber adds ridesharing, where regular drivers use their personal vehicles as part of UberX. [10] June International expansion Uber launches in Mexico City, Mexico. [11] July International expansion Uber expands to Asia, starting in Singapore, Seoul ...
In 1902, Huntington and banker Isaias W. Hellman established the Pacific Electric Railway, which would acquire other railways, providing interurban service to new suburban developments and surrounding towns in what is now Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino County and Riverside Counties). The company operated distinctive ...
The millions of vehicles in the area combined with the additional effects of the Los Angeles/Long Beach complex frequently contribute to further air pollution. Los Angeles was one of the best known cities suffering from transportation smog for much of the 20th century, so much so that it was sometimes said that Los Angeles was a synonym for ...
North is at the top of this map from the ‘’Los Angeles Times,’’ August 20, 1916. Angeles Mesa lies horizontally near the center, bounded on the west by Baldwin Hills and on the east by Western Avenue. St. Mary’s Academy is south of it across Slauson Avenue.
Ultimately, the bill came out to be $294.09 -- pretty cheap compared to the $1,182 that a New York City yellow cab would have charged, but a huge departure from the average 5.4 mile Uber ride.
Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 Above image zoomed out, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 The Women's Christian Temperance Union building, also known as Temperance Temple, at Temple and Fort (now Broadway) streets, with a Temple Street Cable Railway car, 1890
Joby Aviation plans to launch commercial "air taxis" in New York City and Los Angeles in 2025. Joby's eVTOLs offer a quieter, zero-emissions alternative to cars and helicopters.
Red cars at the Pacific Electric Building, c. 1910. In the first half of the 20th century, Southern California had an extensive privately owned rail transit network with over 1,200 miles (1,900 km) of track at its peak, used by the interurban cars of the Pacific Electric ("Red Cars") and streetcars of the Los Angeles Railway ("Yellow Cars").