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Originally Posted by hughfb3

You have to look up the plans before Metro was Metro, when it was the Southern California RTD.

http://scsra.org/library/rapid-transit-history/

I believe at one point there one or two proposals in the early- to mid-20th century that called for building a heavy rail system larger than the NYC Subway (it’s two painful for me to look up). But that was when car culture and suburbanization took off, and LA was a conservative city back then.