The part of the story that’s missing is that at the time these streetcar lines were built, the mass adoption of automobiles was about to start. Within a decade

The part of the story that’s missing is that at the time these streetcar lines were built, the mass adoption of automobiles was about to start. Within a decade or two cars were everywhere, and the streetcars were no longer needed. Edit: Wikipedia says that the first line of the Los Angeles Railway opened in 1897 [1]. The Ford Model T was introduced in 1908 [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Railway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Railway [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T