Quote Originally Posted by 313WX View Post
Actually, like Detroit, LA was also built around the street car. GM pushed to have the streetcars in LA dismantled in the 1950s just as hard as they did here.

Bear in mind the city of Los Angeles had 1.2 million people by 1930, long before they were large scale construction of freeways.
But Los Angeles has 4 million people now. Most of the city's growth occurred during the freeway era. By 1930 Detroit was at 90% of its peak population.