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Van Nuys Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Van Nuys, California.The plant opened in 1947 producing Chevrolet Advance Design trucks. Later it would produce several different models including Chevrolet full-size (Caprice, Impala, etc.), Chevrolet Corvair, Chevrolet Greenbrier, Chevrolet Chevelle, Chevrolet Nova / Buick Apollo / Oldsmobile Omega / Pontiac Ventura, and Chevrolet ...
Los Angeles residents were urged to avoid travel to the area Monday and to work from home if possible. “Our streets cannot handle 300,000 cars,” Bass said, referring to how many vehicles use ...
On Nov. 15, GM cut another 1,000 jobs, including 507 jobs at the GM Tech Center based on information provided to the state.“ There’s still a large money-losing EV business and threats like ...
Pro-freeway sentiments prevailed, and by 1947, a new comprehensive freeway plan for Los Angeles (based largely on the original locally planned 1930s system, but without the light rail tracks in the median strips of the freeways) had been drawn up by the California Department of Public Works (now Caltrans).
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
A crucial stretch of the 10 Freeway remains closed through downtown L.A. after a major fire damaged the highway. Here is what we know.
The damaged section of freeway, also known as the east-west Interstate 10 - or "the 10" - was closed in both directions at a point between two other freeways vital to getting around Los Angeles ...
The Long Beach Freeway was initially intended to go from the port complex all the way north to Pasadena, linking up with the Ventura and Foothill Freeways (SR 134 & I-210), completing a bypass of Downtown Los Angeles to the east. The freeway was completed just past I-10 in Alhambra, and a half-mile stub was built in Pasadena (still unsigned ...