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Originally Posted by jsbertram
I've always been told that Pacific Blvd was deliberately built very wide so that there was room for a streetcar line in the middle.
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Maybe. But I found my source where I read why it built wide. It was the first newly built object on the Expo lands and was supposed to be a "much needed scenic short cut through the pre-Expo railyard wasteland" and was built as a 4 to 6 lane "would-be speedway".
Source: City Making in Paradise by Mike Harcourt & Ken Cameron. Quite a fascinating read, actually.
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