Why Is California Depend On Automobiles

Alyssa Lao

Geo 350

Davidson

Automobiles

Ever wondered why California is known to be depended on automobiles? There are cities in America like New York, Seattle, and Chicago where citizens of the city do not need a car to get by. Their public transportation is good enough that citizens are willing to use it. Los Angeles is known to be a city full of city lights, celebrities, and heavy flow traffic. Life as we know it, the number one item needed when living in California is to own a car. Most citizens of Los Angeles cannot even imagine navigating America’s second largest city without a car in their wildest dreams. Since Los Angeles is so depended on cars, it’s one of the reasons why the air is so polluted with smog. The city is built with

Los Angeles was a small town of about 4,000 people when California became a state in 1850, but also during that time, the city had a reputation as a violent town by the Los Diablo’s who prepared the city for a growth explosion in the 1870s. By late 1920s Los Angeles had a massive population growth since the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1876. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and other railroad companies were marketing the city as a paradise being known as the place were all your dreams would come true. Many were coming to city with hopes for a better living. With the new advertisement of the new city, many people from all over were coming to Los Angeles by train. The trains were always so packed to

The Los Angeles Country transportation is the reason for the construction of the Metro Blue Line, Metro Green Line, and the completion of the Metro Red Line. In 1993, The California state legislator created the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority that merged the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission and the Southern California Rapid Transit District. The Los Angeles County Metro Transportation Association is responsible for operating the clean air CNG-powered Metro bus fleet, Rapid Bus lines, and Metro's Blue Line, Red Line, Green Line, and Gold Line

There is also a movie from 1988 called “who framed roger rabbit” that was about an evil corporation that bought the streetcars in Los angeles. Their selfish mission was to force people out of public transit and into private automobiles. The movie showed what happened how major car companies would purposely put the public transit companies out of