SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT 1974 STRIKE IMPACT STUDY

From August 12 until October 18, 1974, the Los Angeles area public transportation system was operationally shut down by a labor strike. The SCRTD system regularly operates some 1869 buses, serving about 650,000 daily riders, over a 2000 square mile area within the Los Angeles Basin. Although Los Angeles is correctly characterized as an auto oriented urban area, with mass transit carrying only 2 to 3% of weekday person trips, there were apparent impacts--on traffic congestion, on mobility, and on commerce. Nine strike-impact areas were evaluated, including effects on business, on auto traffic and occupancy rates, on unemployment and welfare benefits attributable to the strike, and various other resultant conditions.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared by Bigelow-Crain Associates, Menlo Park, Calif.
• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Transportation

  Division of Mass Transportation, 5900 Folsom Boulevard
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95807

  Bigelow-Crain Associates

  873 Santa Cruz Avenue
  Menlo Park, CA  United States  94025
• Authors:
  • CRAIN, J L
  • FLYNN, S D
• Publication Date: 1975-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 51 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Businesses; Economic conditions; Environmental impacts; Impacts; Mobility; Public transit; Social factors; Standard of living; Strikes; Traffic congestion; Transit riders; Unemployment; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Social welfare; Welfare
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Shutdowns
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00091619
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DMT-004 Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 13 1981 12:00AM