062 Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles | Charles Hobbs
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Growing up in the LA area, I've always been curious about the transportation scene here. Why are we so reliant on cars to get around and why don't we have a great subway system like New York?
To find out I spoke to Charles Hobbs, the author of Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles.
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to the Curiosityness podcast where we do stuff and talk about stuff that you're |
| 0:15.6 | probably curious about. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Travis DeRose, the host, and this is episode 62, and welcome aboard. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm talking to Charles Hobbs. |
| 0:24.6 | He's the author of a book called Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles, and it's a really |
| 0:30.7 | interesting story about the history of transportation in L.A. |
| 0:35.3 | I mean, because we're so reliant. |
| 0:37.0 | I live in Long Beach here in L.A. County mean, because we're so reliant. I live in Long Beach here, |
| 0:38.6 | uh, in the, in L.A. County at least. And we're super reliant on cars and the freeways. And it sucks. |
| 0:46.7 | They're so, it's so congested and crazy. Um, so it's fun to go through with Charles and talk |
| 0:53.6 | about the story. Uh, We start back in the early |
| 0:56.3 | 1900s of the rail cars and like a bicycle cycleway that was going on, different ideas |
| 1:03.8 | that people had for transportation. And then we kind of talk about how we got so reliant on |
| 1:08.3 | cars now and maybe what the future will bring for transportation |
| 1:12.7 | in LA. So buckle in. It's going to be a fun one. Here is episode 62 with Charles Hobbs. |
| 1:21.9 | All right. What's up, Charles? Thanks for being on. |
| 1:25.1 | Okay, well, it's a good day here in Fontana, and I'm ready to answer any questions you may have. |
| 1:32.0 | Right on. |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, man, so you're in Fontana. |
| 1:36.0 | I live in Fontana. |
| 1:37.1 | I work in various places. |
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