TIME CHECK – Journal receptionist Mary Jane Pozega checks her watch against the Journal clock as she prepares for the change from Daylight Savings time to Eastern Standard time. The change will take place at 2 a.m. tomorrow when clocks will be moved back an hour.
Hello, If one lives or drives in any downtown city streets back in the 50s-60s and some cities, even today from Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles, one adapts. All drivers have to give the right of way to the red cars, back then and the blue line cars, today. but, who would argue with such a behemoth vehicle in the traffic lanes? In rainy weather, those steel, in ground rails were as slick as oil. Caution had to be used when driving on them, changing lanes or stopping on them The roads are ingrained with the flat railroad tracks. The lines are still there for car traffic, but when the large red cars and now the blue line cars come into view. One had to accommodate them first by moving into the specific lanes for safety and travel. In some cities there are specified drop off points for the traveler that now are pedestrians when they get off of the trains. They, too have the right of way. Our main form of travel to visit Los Angeles were the Red cars from downtown Long Beach. The tracks are still there today and now the transformation from red cars is to the blue line cars and the pedestrian entrance and get off points are in divided locations in the middle of the larger streets. If the street is not a major thoroughfare with dividers, then a white line divider is provided for train passenger safety when they get off of the trains. Jnaki Our mom did not drive back then and we were too little to drive. So, we took the red cars from the shoreline in Long Beach through the city and other little communities to reach the central Los Angeles Terminal in the downtown locations, socked in the tall building area. Then it was a yellow cab taxi service to our direct destination. YRMV
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