CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Foot that Moves the Pedal: Horace M. Dobbins’s California Cycleway

2. “It’ll Put the Pacific Electric Railroad in a Museum!”: Joseph W. Fawkes’s Aerial Swallow

3. From Nickel-Seekers to Smart Shuttles: The Jitney in Southern California

4. “A Millionaire Twice”: O.R. Fuller’s Motor Transit

5. The Way to Terminal Island: The San Pedro Harbor Ferry and the Vincent Thomas Bridge

6. Brunner, Rindge, Hoyme and Hendler: Transportation Pioneers of the Malibu

7. Buses Run in This Family: The Carsons

8. The School Bus Scandal: The Landiers

9. Helicopters Over Traffic: Clarence Belinn’s Los Angeles Airways

10. “Watts Will Have Its Bus Party!”: Dr. Thomas W. Matthew’s Blue and White Bus

11. Groovy Buses to the Beach: The Kadletz Brothers and the Pink Bus Line

12. Diamonds Are Forever: Adriana Gianturco and the Diamond Lane

13. The Future Is an Abandoned Tunnel: The Los Angeles Downtown People Mover

14. Moving Toward Metrolink: The Oxnard–Los Angeles CalTrain

15. Jump in the Buspool: Mac Barnes’s Ground Link

16. A Freeway Runs through It: Driving on the Los Angeles River

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