Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · May 9 though if i'm honest, my personal favorite LA transit map is the one that shows the modern metro system relative to the freeways. you really get a sense of how enormous los angeles is, and how limited the metro is in comparison.
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it always blows my mind when i drive down from no cal and see that la county includes the entire grapevine too.
This doesn't include Metrolink, which add a lot more coverage, and which incidentally is facing devastating service cuts right now due to LA County.
True fact: At the beginning of the 20th century, everyone in LA lived within 3 blocks of public transport like a trolley.
of course, all of this pales in comparison to the sheer size of the old red car system. (this was the first map i designed for "the lost subways of north america.")
Interesting that even on the red car map, there wasn't a NS tram through the center of L.A. Westside.
Limited, but wow, what progress in the last 20 years.
Now, do the PEC in comparison to the freeways.
When I lived in LA, there was *no* metro system. Just buses and freeways. So there's that.
I didn’t realize how bad LAs public transportation was until I had a kid start going to UCLA, and trying to get him there or home on his own, is a crazy, time consuming mess that takes hours longer than it should.
The New York planner brain in me wants to interline the K with the E into downtown so badly it hurts (yes, I’m aware it’s eventually getting extended to WeHo)
I live in the most west inland valley so the extension to Pomona on the Long Beach line is a blessing to me. It's a nice and quick way to Pasadena.