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Jeffrey Abrams, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League Los Angeles, called the attack a replay of history: Fifty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, a coalition led by Egypt and Syria ...
Los Angeles Union Station is the main train station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. [ 6] It opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, replacing La Grande Station and Central Station . Approved in a controversial ballot measure in 1926 and built in the 1930s ...
Patsaouras Transit Plaza is a bus station on the east side of Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles, near the El Monte Busway. It was originally named the Gateway Transit Plaza but was renamed after Nick Patsaouras, former Rapid Transit District board member who was an advocate for public transportation. The Metro Headquarters Building is ...
Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) ( standard gauge) The Southern California Rapid Transit District (almost always referred to as RTD or rarely as SCRTD) was a public transportation agency established in 1964 to serve the Greater Los Angeles area. It was the successor to the original Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).
Post-1948 history. Many Israeli Americans in Los Angeles are first, second, or third-generation Americans and are the descendants of early Israeli immigrants arriving in the 1950s; while others are more recent immigrants who began moving to Los Angeles in a wave of migration that began in the 1970's continued to this day.
The history of the Los Angeles Metro Rail and Busway system begins in the early 1970s, when the traffic-choked region began planning a rapid transit system. The first dedicated busway opened along I-10 in 1973, and the region's first light rail line, the Blue Line (now the A Line) opened in 1990. Today the system includes over 160 miles (260 km ...
Modesto Transportation Center. Oakland Greyhound Station, 2103 San Pablo Ave. Palm Springs station. Paso Robles station. Redding station. Reedley station. Richmond Greyhound Depot, 250-23rd Street. Roseville station. Sacramento Greyhound Station, 420 Richards Blvd.
Angels Flight is a landmark and historic 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm) narrow gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has two funicular cars, named Olivet and Sinai, that run in opposite directions on a shared cable. The tracks cover a distance of 298 feet (91 m) over a vertical gain of 96 feet (29 m).