Regional Mass Transit Plans

According to Fulton, the Pacific Electric (Red Car) Railway, of fond memory, served Los Angeles well because it funneled many commuters into downtown Los Angeles where most people worked in days of yore.

If his argument is valid--and it sounds suspiciously like a belated attempt to vindicate General Motors and Standard Oil (and perhaps Firestone), who callously fragmented the P.E. for their own financial interests--the solution to our transit problem is simple and relatively inexpensive: build a monorail along the center dividers of our freeways so commuters can travel by rail to the same destinations, however widely scattered, to which they now go by automobile. Would this not be the perfect remedy for freeway gridlock?

MARVIN H. LEAF, Santa Monica