Guide to Getting Around Part 14 Ventura
The development of our area has been directly affected by its contact to transportation. This was once just a dusty stage coat stuff, single passenger vehicles were a horse and before that a Burro. Then tunnel 26 connected the rail line to Los Angeles. The Oxnard brothers built their sugar plant at a corner in the rail line.
Our community grew surrounding that train stuff. It took its name from the side of the building and became our county’s largest city, soon home to a million people.
Between the railroad and the port, the ability to transport product made agriculture in our area flourish. Then on of the first free ways in the world brought automobile traffic in suburban communities to our direction, gas was cheap, cars were affordable, and the vast public transportation systems of Los Angeles were slowly killed off.
Yes folks, the sub thought for Roger Rabbit was true. National City Line, a consortium of General Motors, Firestone, and Standard Oil bought up the privately held Pacific Electric Railway and systematically closed it down replacing it with buses that coincidently were built by General Motors, ran on Firestone tires, and used Standard Oil products. We are left with that legacy.
Total reliance on freeways has worked out so well, has not it? Los Angeles have even taken some of the old railway incident and turned them into a high-speed bus ways that cut across places like the San Fernando Valley. Our transit systems seem to rely exclusively on buses. Looking at it as an outsider, it seems like California transit designers use it like a crutch. Let us draw another bus at the problem that is not entirely the problem. Politicians and administrators have there hands tied by loving an advocacy groups that put more laws on the books. Buses are usually the option of least resistance. I will get back to these.
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