destroyed. los angeles is one of the most congested cities in the us the metropolitan region has a population of some eighteen million and the majority of its residents use cars for daily travel but this wasn't always the case through the one nine hundred fifty s. los angeles had a street car system that was very popular the tickets were cheap and connections were excellent people had no reason to buy an expensive car. but in one nine hundred sixty one the pacific electric long beach line shut down. the trolleys nicknamed the red cars had been a fixture in the city since one thousand no one. but they were slowly taken out of service after street cars on a track network were bought by another company. that company didn't want to operate the public transport it wanted to destroy it. a consortium of car