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Season Three Research Files
Episode Twenty-three
11:00am-12:00pm
All Los Angeles streetcar lines had been closed down by 1963 to make it a car-friendly city. With 14 million people in the greater metropolitan area, those cars created one of the most traffic-congested cities. In the 1980s, the county decided to build a network of metro and light rail lines. Although the first light rail opened in 1990, the only underground subway -- the Red Line -- opened in 1993 after seven years of construction. The Red Line runs from downtown Los Angeles westwards to Hollywood and North Hollywood. All of the underground stations boast an interesting design, which obviously made construction more expensive than elsewhere. Due to the city's geographical situation, tunnels had to be built to resist earthquakes of up to 7.5 degrees.
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