Public Transport: Sucks.

So since my rallying cry last week to take public transportation, I *have* taken it..once.

You see, when there are only two subway stations for all of San Fernando Valley (a huge overpopulated expanse of Hell-Ay), there is NO PARKING for people who have to drive 10 miles to said subway stations.

Luckily, the Orange Line opens soon--it's a fancy schmancy busway that - gasp! - connects the farthest reaches of SFV (in fact there's a station just 10 min from my apt) to the ACTUAL SUBWAY!

Honestly, this town...! In the LA Times' editorial secion yesterday, it was noted that a subway couldn't be built along Wilshire Blvd (the main street that connects LA proper from Downtown to ritzy and business-heavy West L.A.) because of gross amounts of methane. And now there are possible plans of sneaking in a mixed-use building in the last bare lot along wilshire, and wealthy WLA denizens are freaking out. Of course, they also prevented more public transportation (methane or not) from being built there. And now traffic is snarled all along Wilshire every single day. (These same citizens voted down a subway that connected all the way to LAX. Can you believe it? So now you have to take 3 subway lines from the valley, let's say, to about 10 minutes short of LAX--and take a BUS SHUTTLE. Good heavens!!)

But Mayor V is having a new study done on this "Methane" and the legislator that sponsored the no-subway bill said he'd relent if the methane really wasn't that big of an issue. And hopefully, many years and a billion dollars later, LA'ers will have another way to get to freakin' work on time without sitting in traffic.

This town makes no sense to me sometimes.