MIKE MCGINLEY: ABOUT RAILROADS, THE RIVER, AND THE PIGGYBACK YARD

BOYLE HEIGHTS 1873 (USED WITH PERMISSION OF THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY)

The very first railway in Los Angeles ran north and south on Alameda Street. Phineas Banning built the connection between downtown and the tidewater at Wilmington – the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad. The Santa Fe, when it came in, came down through Highland Park along the west bank of the River. In 1875 the Southern Pacific, with a lot of help from the City of Los Angeles, came into L.A. and connected with the L.A. and San Pedro and then took off for the east – for Yuma, Arizona, El Paso, Texas, connecting up with the eastern railroads, putting Southern California on a linkage throughout the U.S. (more…)

ROBERT GARCIA THINKS ABOUT COMMUNITY

You have variously described some of the goals of the Piggyback Yard as water detention, open space programming, and the connectors between parks and neighborhoods, I recommend in the strongest possible terms is that there also be a goal , a theme that explicitly talks about people – focusing on four areas: Jobs, Housing, Heath and Culture. (more…)