in 1924, the downtown L.A. intersection of Seventh Street and Broadway was the busiest in the world with 504,000 people crossing those streets each day.
Streetcars helped make this one of the most efficient and high capacity intersections in the world, outdoing even the famous shibuya crossing which usually has 250k daily crossers (though it does often reach 2.4 million).
u/MetalicP — 15 days ago