Car Companies bought public transit (buses and street cars mostly), and scrapped it, to force more sales of their cars as people could no longer get around easily without public transit.
I visit a few times a year, and stayed once at LAX; getting to Santa Monica Pier took like 90 minutes by metro train. The metro system is beyond useless.
LA needs mass transit first
The history of transportation in LA is tragic because at one point they had not one, but two massive streetcar networks.
Really? I grew up there and didn’t know that.
A lot of cities had them. But they got in the way of profits.
tl:dr for those that are interested.
Car Companies bought public transit (buses and street cars mostly), and scrapped it, to force more sales of their cars as people could no longer get around easily without public transit.
I visit a few times a year, and stayed once at LAX; getting to Santa Monica Pier took like 90 minutes by metro train. The metro system is beyond useless.
Bloody typical, you seem to think you can skip straight to the end of the journey.
No, that’s not how things work, this is a stepping stone towards that.
You can’t just take a 200 meter horizontal leap across the water, you need these stepping stones to then make it across
I live in LA and use mass transit every week. Coverage is not universal but it is a thing.
Granted I moved away a long time ago, happy to hear it’s improved.