The problem is you can’t solve the problem by simply removing the car. There are 3 major phases to commuting: 1st mile, primary transit, and last mile. A car solves all 3 at once, which is why it’s very easy to design around cars.
And the frustrating thing is, you really do need all 3 in a lot of places. I live in Texas where it can be triple digit temperatures for 5 months of the year.
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
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.
Slowly but surely! They’re expanding it as we speak.
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
The problem is you can’t solve the problem by simply removing the car. There are 3 major phases to commuting: 1st mile, primary transit, and last mile. A car solves all 3 at once, which is why it’s very easy to design around cars.
And the frustrating thing is, you really do need all 3 in a lot of places. I live in Texas where it can be triple digit temperatures for 5 months of the year.
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.
You have to have a car as it stands today unfortunately