The Red Cars are back! Well, sort of. Part of early Los Angeles lore, the city's transportation system in the first half of the century, led by the trolleys known as "red cars," was the envy of the world.
But the post-war car boom pretty much made them extinct, with the last Red Car retired in 1961. Now San Pedro, in the hopes that it might boost tourism, has won approval to run three streetcars along Harbor Boulevard--mainly for the tourists visiting the harbor off their cruise ships. Two of the streetcars are reproductions of the Pacific Electric "red car" trolleys and the other is a1907 vintage trolley.
The streetcars will run in the daytime on the weekends. I've read of similar proposals to resurrect some Red Cars as a tourist attraction downtown.
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