Cars are awesome for light suburbs and rural areas, but they do not scale as density increases. Los Angeles passed this size and density long, long ago. Orange County (basically part of LA unless you live here) is doing so right about now.
I truly do not get the LA car culture thing. I mean... the traffic is so bad you don't even get to really drive there. You just sit there in your car stuck in a traffic jam. People own these expensive sports cars that they can't drive faster than 10mph most of the time. It's a classic example of a tragedy of the commons.
LA is building transit but not enough and not fast enough. It's a truly huge city, both in population and in physical footprint, and to cover it all with useful transit will require decades of build-out.
I truly do not get the LA car culture thing. I mean... the traffic is so bad you don't even get to really drive there. You just sit there in your car stuck in a traffic jam. People own these expensive sports cars that they can't drive faster than 10mph most of the time. It's a classic example of a tragedy of the commons.
LA is building transit but not enough and not fast enough. It's a truly huge city, both in population and in physical footprint, and to cover it all with useful transit will require decades of build-out.