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Originally Posted by mrnyc
some subway is good out there for sure, but more than any other city la is the one i wish for the most to bring the streetcars back.
i guess car drivers would never go for it anymore, but still i wish they would experiment with it somewhere to see what happens.
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LA streetcars didn't work in 1960 and they really wouldn't work now. When they were built and LA only didn't have as many people they averaged 30mph. At the end after the population exploded, it was something like 14 mph. Now it would be more like 10 mph. The biggest issue though is that a minor fender bender on a street shuts the line down. They wouldn't be reliable. I wouldn't want that for LA.