It takes a quite high level of traffic to make taking public transit—which usually, at rush hour, means standing in a hot uncomfortable crowded bus or train car. Compare that to your own private comfortable seat with noise isolation and entertainment. There seems to be very little support for increasing the number of busses to run every five minutes instead of ten, for instance.<p>Frankly, most cities in the US don&#x27;t have that level of traffic in that many places. If it&#x27;s not even going to make a difference to drivers in LA it&#x27;s not going to be many current drivers&#x27; first choice in the relatively traffic-free (and much less dense) car-oriented cities <i>outside</i> of LA. (But then, there are network effects here too, and so the question is how much that changes as the LA network continues to be built out over the next 15 years. And LA is planning on also making road driving significantly more annoying in many areas too (&quot;road diets&quot;) which is a probably-good but obviously controversial plan.<p>Unless, in the meantime, self-driving cars are the final nail in the coffin for non-NYC US mass-transit...