A lot of these spurs were torn up in the 40s and 50s when the freeway was going to be the savior of all our transit needs. In Los Angeles especially, they're no

A lot of these spurs were torn up in the 40s and 50s when the freeway was going to be the savior of all our transit needs. In Los Angeles especially, they're now reactivating a lot of lines when they can as money comes in, because there's a lot of real estate that was wisely bought up by the local transit agencies when the various private transit companies stopped running.