Many LA Boulevards Began as Street Car Lines

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This is far more common than you might think. In a lot of older urban areas, if you find a major road with a broad, tree-lined median there's a good chance a streetcar ran down it. Warwick Blvd. had a streetcar line up to my neighborhood, and there are several streets in Norfolk where there's an obvious interurban culprit for the beautiful median.
 
Cincinnati has a broad tree lined parkway in the middle of town that covers a subway.
Sadly, inflation ate the money during WW1, and after the war they were never able to build out the system at their own expense. There was no outside money for rail projects back then, but the Feds would take the ROW as a contribution in kind for the new interstates, so most of the line was converted to freeway except the underground section downtown.
Which is still there.
 

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