The Red Line is the new Metro system (which was destroyed in 1997's Volcano). The electrified light-rail from the 1930's was the LA Railway. https://en.wikiped

The Red Line is the new Metro system (which was destroyed in 1997's Volcano). The electrified light-rail from the 1930's was the LA Railway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Railway GM, Firestone, and several other companies were indicted in 1949 for attempting to form a monopoly over local transit. The semi-urban legend part (it was never definitively proved there was a plot behind it all) was the ripping out of the streetcars, replacing them with GM-made bus networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...