, 2008). There is an assumption by many people that public transportation is dirty and smelly, or that only lower income people use it (Achs, 1991)
This is far from the truth. Many people may not know about transportation options in their city, and they may not realize how beneficial these options can be (Barletta, et al
There is an assumption by many people that public transportation is dirty and smelly, or that only lower income people use it (Achs, 1991). In the vast majority of cities, all kinds of people use public transportation (Newman & Kenworthy, 1999)
Despite the fact that the initiatives undergone by Roosevelt were in fact the dramatic response in one of the most difficult situations the nation had to go through, the success of his acts proved the fact that indeed, action can be taken and things such as the infrastructure can be built both efficiently as well as in an useful manner. In this sense, to this day, there are visible the effects of the Public Works Administration projects which included the Bay Bridge, the Hoover Dam and Washington's National Airport (Cohen, 2007)
Thus, during Thomas Jefferson's presidency, the initiative of Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin "embodied perhaps the most revolutionary vision of any national plan: the creation of a truly democratic society through the planned settlement of a whole continent. The sale of federal lands would be organized to produce a society dominated by independent farmers, and this new continent of citizen-farmers would be connected to thriving cities and their world-wide markets by a federally-financed network of roads, and canals (and later railroads) to form the world's most productive economy" (Fishman, 2007)
The United States is a rather vast territory and it was a crucial matter for it to develop an important road system that would connect the country from East to West and from the North to the South. In this sense, the end of the American Revolution was a significant era in the development of cross country transportation (Jenkins, 1997)
However, there are numerous situations in which states are left alone to manage their own public policy works. In this sense, in the area of public transportation, an area in which comprehensive and coordinated actions must be taken, it is important that "an esprit de corps within the transportation industry be developed so that Congress can be presented with a unified declaration of national policy which is broad enough and clear enough to satisfy the needs of the industry and to develop and preserve a strong healthy well balanced national transportation system" (Johnson, 1953)
Even if it had not been until the end of the Second World War that the Pacific Electric Railway Company come to be threatened by motorized vehicles, the business had actually started to experience problems in organization in the early 1920s. People were inclined to favor auto travel because of the benefits they thought they would get from exploiting the industry (Boarnet, and Crane 2001, 122)
Although the Pacific Electric Railway Company is history, it is still remembered with nostalgia. However, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission has gotten actively engaged in reviving tramway transportation across a large sector of the previous Long Beach railway line (Cudahy 1990, 204)
People in the territory were particularly dependent on railway systems at the time (Zierer 1934, 8). A great deal of towns from the 1910s and 1920s benefited from railroads neighboring them and some had actually developed in the immediate vicinity or railway systems, seizing the opportunity of exploiting the industry (Gerlach 1940, 225)
This is probably one of the reasons for which the Red Cars never generated large profits, as they were never designed to do so. Huntington concentrated on real estate and the trolley system had been a mere stratagem meant to assist him in developing his businesses (Jackson 1985, 345)
The large red cars of the Pacific Electric Railway Company came to be a hallmark of Los Angeles, as the city's inhabitants identified with them. Although they were mainly seen as a mean of traveling from point A to point B, people enjoyed riding them, using them for virtually every reason possible, ranging from going on picnics to simply riding them and enjoying the view (Lavender 1987, 347)
Freeways had a negative influence of trolley transportation even before they were constructed. "Perhaps Los Angeles may have encountered these effects somewhat earlier than other cities, but it is otherwise not atypical" (St. Clair 1986, 107)
Although they were mainly seen as a mean of traveling from point A to point B, people enjoyed riding them, using them for virtually every reason possible, ranging from going on picnics to simply riding them and enjoying the view (Lavender 1987, 347). Local industries have also benefited from the railway system, considering that they could use it to transport products (Zierer 1934, 70)
Although they were mainly seen as a mean of traveling from point A to point B, people enjoyed riding them, using them for virtually every reason possible, ranging from going on picnics to simply riding them and enjoying the view (Lavender 1987, 347). Local industries have also benefited from the railway system, considering that they could use it to transport products (Zierer 1934, 70)