Metropolitan Coach Lines.

Biography / Administrative History

Metropolitan Coach Lines Company (MCL) was born out of the socio-economic changes that transformed many large American cities in the years following World War II. Postwar prosperity allowed Americans to indulge in the luxury of the automobile and freeways expanded to accommodate the new auto culture. Work and home were no longer necessarily coterminous and American city-life began to decentralize. This was particularly true in Los Angeles where, a 1955 report to the LAMTA noted, "the ratio of automobile ownership to population... is the highest of any comparable urban area in the world and in no other such area is so great dependence placed on the private automobile as the principle means of passenger transportation (Cloverdale and Colpitts, 1955: p.3)".

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