The Foothill Gold Line extension is a reminder to some of transportation’s past – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

The following excerpt appeared in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on February 10, 2016. To read the full article, click here.

The Foothill Gold Line extension is a reminder to some of transportation’s past – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Pacific Electric car from 1951 at Monrovia Olive Street. Photo courtesy of Alan Weeks

Pacific Electric car from 1951 at Monrovia Olive Street. Photo courtesy of Alan Weeks

By Steve Scauzillo

February 10, 2016

[Excerpt]:

Alan Weeks is going back to the future.

When the modern, light-rail Gold Line extension train begins whooshing along the base of the San Gabriel Mountains starting March 5, he will be there experiencing deja-vu.

That’s because Weeks, an 84-year-old regular guy who once printed bus schedules for the old RTD (Rapid Transit District), had been there 65 years ago, on Sept. 30, 1951, when he and others rode the last electric trolley out of Glendora into Los Angeles. The switching tower and old Pacific Electric Red Car station are long-gone landmarks, but ones that stood only a few yards away from the new Gold Line Arcadia Station at North First Avenue and Santa Clara Street.

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1 comment

  1. Gary Bryant says:

    The oil industry has been guilty of many things, like reaping war, exploiting people and wrecking our environment.

    But, National City Lines, their conspiracy to destroy the Red Cars and other such transit systems, was one of their most vicious acts.

    They were caught in the act, but we’re only punished with a $1,000 fine. By then, it was too late.

    It took decades to rebuild what was taken away, but it’s coming together quite nicely now.

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