From Redcars to Freeways: A Brief History of Los Angeles Transit

[@Kerry.]

This is a really good well-put together documentary. Perhaps maybe should've added Eisenhower's Interstate program and how the federal government was subsidizing a ton of freeway construction. Good job!

[@kasufert]

takes me 2+ hours to take public transit to USC... meanwhile its a 35 minute drive from south OC

[@jessicat9999]

this is really good for a school project

[@oldkidsjonge]

Beautiful trolley-cars they had back then.

[@hgr4255]

Brilliant Video, my friend. As a Freeway buff for years, I thing you're doc is the best. Thanks for that.

[@markskidd5093]

That was a great clip! I hope it was well received.

[@phillipford8149]

Nice doc. The Long Island Motor Parkway from 1908 was the first controlled access road, though. Earl Swift's book The Big Roads is a great read about the building of the interstates and road history in general.

[@steveartviewer]

EXCELLENT presentation. Nostalgia for me, as well. Thanks

[@bobanderson2895]

The back round music is too loud.

[@vegas1a]

WAY TOO LOUD, at points I could not hear the narration at all!!

[@101Volts]

Loud music aside (an easy fix,) this was nice to hear. Do you have one on the Pennsylvania Turnpike too? I mention it seeing as it was more or less the first "Interstate" in America, interestingly enough people went over 90 MPH on it frequently way back then with virtually no safety equipment.

[@aleighlewis]

Excellent job!! You should make more! Great use of music and archival footage.

[@thaintriguing1]

Who else heard someone talking while the music was playing?

[@ilyaforeal]

Extraordinary video and I love the ending! 👏

[@tombrady7039]

You're gonna need to update this video. "From red cars, to freeways, to tunnels".

[@metrolibrarian]

Great work!

[@oliviermarti8656]

Good documentary, my friend

[@rmarkwallace]

The Pacific Electric System was falling apart after almost two decades of deferred maintenance and the state feared for the safety of operation.

[@matt-joye]

The ending monologue is 100

[@stardustdreamfactory1947]

Interesting - have been looking for a history timeline for the LA freeway system for quite some time - thanks.

[@broxboy86]

its interesting how the terminology used was very cross antlantic in those days. in the uk sidewalk had been said and motorway was being used in california

[@beckweth]

The biggest problem with Los Angeles county is that it is ginormous. 15 million people in one county - insanely big. Should be broken up into 15 or more counties. But it won't.

[@gabrielalopetegui]

Very interesting theme. If you have the chance, lower the music track. Especially when there is dialogue.

[@thiery572]

Interesting.

[@760jjsole8]

2:59 Christopher said the same line twice like in Back to the Future ......"as far as the eye can see"...

[@Royalroadtotheunc]

But that's a common saying!

[@johntracy72]

Just watch "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

[@tips4truckers252]

Awesome. I like how you added the thing about beauty pageants.

[@RyanFidrick]

Great video! What is the name of the black and white comedy in the beginning ?

[@michaelbogomolny6475]

who framed roger rabbit

[@MikeJDavis747]

This would have been a great video if it weren't for the loud music that drowned out the narrative.

[@cbee5568]

I can see the 10 frwy was still under construction then as it is today.

[@fiatemWswiat]

Lloyd! d BEST!

[@LilDP]

4:46 "A whopping $500 each..." is he being sarcastic here? Is this a lot? How much is that in today's terms?

[@RomanRuinFilms]

LilDP I was indeed being sarcastic. Adjusting for inflation, $5,000 in 1949 would be worth about $48,716.18 today. While this may sound a lot, it is a drop in the bucket for a company like General Motors who's net earnings in 1949 exceeded 656 million dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that's over 6 billion dollars.

[@LilDP]

Well that's disconcerting.

[@kdm71291]

Wait....where did it reach Vta. Cnty.?

[@secrets.295]

LA need a big huge subway

[@kurtkitchel3716]

Music?

[@Jesuis-qe8ql]

2:09 comos e llama la pelicula How is the movie called

[@henryfernando7289]

Quien engaño Roger Rabbit (1988)

[@Jesuis-qe8ql]

@@henryfernando7289 gracias amix

[@TalesfromtheRails]

Good job (Unwanted criticism) The Roger rabbit clip was a little too long

[@henryfernando7289]

Movie roger rabbit 1988

[@markquinly3605]

Background music ruins this

[@ElSmusso]

Tragic place.0

[@abdul8685]

Background music doesn't fit. It's too loud and too fast. It's not appropriate

[@kenfranklin5606]

Then It's True

[@skipsassy1]

nver blame the cusomers of the Model T and others. The public did this.

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

Are you kidding me??? How does LA have no "nucleus" what about the skyscrapers

[@AlonsoRules]

compared to the size of the city, downtown LA is tiny

[@jflow08]

@@AlonsoRules very small. You drive in and out of it after a few blocks.

[@johnrobertfox7775]

PACIFIC ELECTRIC WAS KILLED BY CORPERATE GREED !

[@TheChickensoap]

turn down the fucking music

[@oldkidsjonge]

Turn down your fucking ego

[@ayutchapraya9240]

If California still Mexico teritory

[@ayutchapraya9240]

Thats right man.. be California poverty like chiapaz

[@ayutchapraya9240]

No guns n roses, no LAPD

[@blizzy6392]

Thanks for the SJW Virtue Signaling at 7:19. Irrelevant to the subject at hand much? Good subject but your project loses its seriousness with all the comedy film/pop culture references.

[@StrokedGT]

ruined it with that little SJW piece around 7:15

[@Test-vl1ib]

Was with you until the pat-answer Leftist crap about “systematic oppression of women” at 7:25. Give me a break.

[@handsfortoothpicks]

How is it "leftist" to want women to be equal to men? That is literally a basic human right for all people to be equal. Women couldn't even vote till like 1920, which is when the red car was declining. How do you say that "a large company was fundamentally destroying a public transportation system" but you draw the line at womens sufferage. It wasn't even the main point of the video. This video is literally about freeways and the red car. BTW because I know you're a liberal, capitalism destroyed the red car.

[@darkhorsejim]

Unwatchable with ridiculous background music.

[@gutesteven]

7:13 Pasadena's tradition of Men ranking the physical beauty of High School Girls? I thought this was a decent film until you made that stupid remark about the Tournament of Roses.

[@rtd1409]

National City Lines had nothing to do with the Pacific Electric and had no ownership of them, they owned the Los Angeles Transit Lines "Yellow Cars" a competitor to the PE "Red Car" system. The simple reason the railways ended operation was lack of public ownership and no government subsidy. Oscar Smith the president of the Pacific Electric begged for right of ways to be embedded in freeways when they were beginning to be built in the late 1940's and he was laughed out of business and the company sold out equipment and passenger lines to Metro Coach Lines in 1953 however the parent to the PE was the Southern Pacific and they still owned the fireight operation of the PE and as SP wanted the whole transit operation gone and by 1958 LAMTA was formed as the first public transit agency in LA and Sp would revoke the right to use the rails of the last remaining line to Long Beach in 1961. The overly sensationalized and romanticized "Big Conspiracy" nonsense holds no water.

[@MissterX]

I stopped your video after your lame Social Justice Warrior subliminal flash about beauty pageants.