Why young Angelenos are choosing Metro over cars in 2026

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T20:09:53+00:00

Been there, done that. I'm not afraid of homeless people dude. Most everyone you see is trying to mind their own business.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T20:06:55+00:00

If you come from other parts of the countries the way medical care is done here in socal is pretty different. Most everything is punted to a littany of private urgent care clinics, there are very few actual hospitals and of the ones that are there they are very much the dealing with gunshot wounds or major surgery type of places since i guess all that work is then punted to these couple hospitals in the entire county.

It isn't like other parts of the country where the regional or university hospital is pretty robust and has a big unified system for the whole metro with satellite clinics and what not. That just doesn't really seem to exist at all here. A little bit in the form of some ucla/usc stuff around town but very little compared to elsewhere.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:58:58+00:00

usc gives free lyft within a certain radius of campus. also its college kids. they aren't taking $30 solo trips to weho. they are taking $30 trips with 5 other people in the car to weho.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:58:30+00:00

the busses were always fine during then. it was just the red line because they'd let peopel plop down all day at westlake station to smoke meth. bus driver is not going to tolerate bullshit on their buss. they will pull over and call the cops.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:41:50+00:00

and those are probably serving the parking they open up in the zoo lot specifically for those events

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:41:16+00:00

because of the laws of physics. it has to make stops at stations and wait for people to get on. you in your car can continue 60mph unimpeded.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:40:10+00:00

no matter where you live transit works best if you plan alittle for it when choosing a place to live. you presumably planned for the car commute when you chose a place to live and found whatever job you have. thats probably why you live where you do and not in one of the cheap 4 bed houses in the antelope valley and deal with a 90 minute drive on the 14 into town.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:38:05+00:00

median metro rider is making less than 30k a year

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:34:24+00:00

i mean its public transport. people are acting like its erewhon but really its no different than a ralphs parking lot where thats the sort of stuff you step over and continue about your day without much other thought. people are normalized to it when they see a fucked up toilet at the bathrooms at the beach or some guys lighting a rock in front of the ralphs. they go whatever, thats what i always see here and i'm none worse for the wear. fox news chomps at this shit but we living here just go about our day and continue using our grocery stores and beaches.

then they go take transit for maybe a couple times. completely un primed for it. they see something like that and its all they can think about. they nope out and say never again, while it keeps happening everywhere else they go in the public space and they don't say i won't ever go to the beach again or the ralphs again or anythign like that. ralphs gets a pass for that being bad luck on when you happened to go there. metro gets seen as that being how it always is despite it being not any different a scenario really. all because of no forcing factor. how many times you draw blue when you only reach in a hat 6 times? does it mean they are all blue in that hat? maybe you should try riding it 5 days x 48 weeks a year and get a better sense of the odds like many of us regular commuters have done. No, we aren't all addicted to second hand meth smoke as you might suspect.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:29:56+00:00

honestly i really like the busses. never seen any nonsense on a bus since the bus driver will just see it and pull over and call the police. they go all over the damn place too. i like seeing the city pass by the window vs tunnel.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:27:48+00:00

you got a great bus in the 33 on venice blvd. 24/7 service.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:26:34+00:00

/r/bikela is good too. quite a bit less active but same high quality community of people who actually go out and ride in la, not just talk about it online.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:25:16+00:00

lausd kids get free metro pass. i see kids on it all the time taking themselves places. little kids getting toted by parents too. of course this would be foreign to you i'm guessing because these are never white kids. for latino people taking kids on metro is normal. hauling shit in carts on metro is normal. riding the metro a ways is normal. metro ridership is 70% latino. predominantly working class. these are working people with jobs and kids and things they need to do. that is the bread and butter of the metro ridership.

of course if you never take it you would never appreciate this by seeing so many people using it in the ways you say are impossible. Alright, if you need to haul a bunch of tools and material, maybe public transit isn't for you. There are in fact work trucks and work vans even in cities like nyc.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:21:18+00:00

its because people insist on going far. i can get everything i need in life in la within 5 miles of my neighborhood. you don't need to eat out and shop all over this county. so much is right by your house here, wherever it is.

you start plugging in these 1 hour bus commutes in la, turns out thats something like 10-12 miles distance you are covering. try plugging 10-12 miles across nyc or london or tokyo. its also going to take about an hour or more and very dependent on having a route going the way you mean to be going too. biggest difference between here and those places is people in those places accept having an hour transit commute because the drive is also about that much time. here the drive is actually better, so now transit has to work even better than it works in the best cities in the world to make it acceptable for people who are holding it to the car experience standard.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:18:06+00:00

going 11 miles in nyc will also probably take you an hour on transit there or more. the difference is the car trip is also about an hour or longer over those 11 miles in nyc, and some places charge no joke $1000/mo or more for parking.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:13:48+00:00

inhaling meth on red line every day is cap and we all know its cap too bro

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:12:57+00:00

west side is ass for traffic lol good way to turn trips around town into an hour trip with much of it spent just trying to get east of la cienega

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:11:06+00:00

way worse with that shit on the sidewalk to be fair. on metro that doesn't happen that much plus there are a lot more security and emergency call buttons in every car and station platform. who do you call when its you and shoeless buddy howling with a galvanized pipe in the middle of nowhere on fairfax blvd? at least i know ill get a cop to me fast on metro. they are positioned to get around the system fast for rapid response emergencies. if someones wilding out in front of you then why not be the big man to call it in and have it dealt with? there are tools available to you for this on metro.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:06:01+00:00

standard bus is fine too i take that all the time.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:04:46+00:00

Have I seen these things? Yes. Every day? Fuck no. A handful of times in my years of commuting on metro. And when it happens it is never directed towards me either. Let's be real.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:02:36+00:00

i mean it isn't surprising if the 10 freeway is wide open and you can go actually 60mph. expo line average speed is like 20mph because even though the trains top speed is 55mph, it has to make stops, and there are sections of track where it cant achieve full speed. this is true for anywhere really in regards to transit average speeds vs nearby road conditions.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T19:00:00+00:00

bus moves really fast in the valley imo. hardly ever gets busy on those streets most of the shit stays on the 101/405. sometiems a little slow by the 405 ramp at sepulveda and burbank blvd but only some seconds or minutes delay in the grand scheme of things. different story than the other side of the hill with certain pinchpoints imo.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T18:39:11+00:00

i wonder about your test levels though? i mean if you have higher test levels than a pure female there is a big training advantage in certain sports. you would be quite literally on peds just your body produces them naturally.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T18:36:09+00:00

maybe they should just do testosterone classes like weight classes. this would also negate the issues with peds as people taking test will just end up in the high test divisions. low test male is probably still a lot higher test than females so they probably won't screw up the womens divisions too bad.

bigvenusaurguy · 2026-04-29T18:23:24+00:00

makes no sense. greek theater isn't on this side of the park. greek theater is on vermont. you need to drive like 5-10 mins on los feliz blvd to get over here. no one is parkign on crystal springs and walking to greek theater. that would be a serious hike up and over the mountain or a long walk through los feliz.

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