Twin City Rapid Transit map print, 1948 long_beach It would've had two tracks

It would've had two tracks beneath Broadway and Fifth Avenue

The San Diego Electric Railway

even the proposal's biggest booster

which requires passengers to go downtown to transfer

Twin City Rapid Transit map print, 1948 long_beach It would've had two tracksThe Twin City Rapid Transit Co. provided comprehensive mass transit for the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul until it was taken over by the Metropolitan Council in 1970. In 1948, depicted here, streetcar systems were being replaced across the country, and the company was the subject of a takeover bid from a man named Charles Green. Green would complete his takeover the next year, announcing that Twin City Rapid Transit's enormous streetcar