Comment Re:Easy solution... (Score 1) 611
Chicago and NYC (and SF) have useable mass transit systems.
LA doesn't. It has a light rail system, but the sprawl is so bad you still have no reliable, timely way to get from your closest train stop to your home or office.
I worked in Simi Valley with a young engineer who lived in South Central. Great inspirational story of someone bootstrapping themselves. But he spent two and a half hours commuting by a combination of bus, train and bike to get to work.
Each way. Not very many people will tolerate it. But he did. Because he didn't want to move his mama from South Central to Simi Valley. He supported her, and the culture shock would have been too much for her.
Then he was killed when a [train] engineer missed a signal and collided with his commuter train coming the other way on the same track.
Most people would rather drive.