LA and DF

``If successful, the novel plan to borrow billions from the federal government, led by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, would result in the largest transit expansion project in the nation.''

``In the first half of the 20th century the Los Angeles region boasted an extensive system of streetcars and high-speed electric railways including the famed Red Cars. After World War II, Southern California began abandoning those systems in favor of personal automobiles and freeways, leaving mass transit to buses.''

Taken from Google.

You may not know this; after Mexico D.F. (Federal District), LA has more Mexicans than any city in the world.

When I was a kid in Mexico City, I did ride electric trains, then they disappeared, and the subway system came along in the 60s.

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, like Mayor Villaraigosa, almost seem to come from the same Political Party!

Same concerns, same solutions.

I never thought I'd see this day. All I can say is that I am glad Antonio Villaraigosa speaks Spanish.