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Here we go: I unearthed a beautiful if not a very good solution to the traffic congestion problems in 1939 Los Angeles. It is a rare, self-published work of what seems to have received almost no attention, suggesting a combination of suspended railways and elevated roads to free up more space on the streets of L.A. It is the work of Alphonso Davino (1888-1965?) who wrote A Brief analysis of the Traffic Congestion Problem and its Economical Solution¹ and presented it to city planners in 1939.  Mr. Davino had an entire system of transportation, though he seems to have luck in getting the ideas across a wider population in only occasional and obscure publications. 

I can not find very much at all for Mr. Davino, though he is a patent holder for at least three associated designs/ideas dating from 1926 to 1950. [Semirigid Suspended Railway Structures, 1607875, (1923); Aerial Railway Apparatus patent 2234487 (1943); Suspended Rapid Transit System 2781001A (1950), (suspended vehicles with self-propelled vehicles).] I also found a reference to a suspended transportation system of some sort offered by him through his business “Aerial Apparatus” of Los Angeles (in the Mining Journal, vol 110, 6 November 1920, p 910).