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How Los Angeles Rejected the Monorail

How Los Angeles Rejected the Monorail

Peter Dibble made a video that gives insight on a proposal from the early days that was a way to deal with the growing traffic concerns in the LA area.

In the mid-20th century, Los Angeles came surprisingly close to building a sprawling monorail transit system. This documentary provides an in-depth study of how the idea developed, the problems it promised to solve, and the reasons it was ultimately never built.

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Rod Washington:  Rod is a blogger, writer, filmmaker, photographer, daydreamer who likes to cook. Rod produces and directs the web series, CUPIC: Diary of an Investigator. He also produces news and documentary video projects. Check out his podcast StoriesThisMoment at https://m3e.d71.myftpupload.com/stm-tncn-podcasts/