A line of hope in the City of Angels

摘要

So good old BC has been to the Faroe Islands, and a splendid story of an integrated public transport network ensued. Not to be outdone, I am going to talk about Los Angeles this time ... oh, and an event in London that got much less coverage than the withdrawal of < R-word > from the 14 and 22. It is easy to see why the City of Angels became a highly prized place in which to live. The early American settlers found in California an idyllic climate and, above all, acres of open space in which to set up home in grand style. LA sprawls over a vast area and is at the centre of a region with a 15 million population. Its rapid growth in the early part of the 20th century was made possible by the entrepreneur Henry E. Huntington, who set about building the Los Angeles Railways and then the huge interurban Pacific Electric network.