Why do we drive? - Unaffordable housing. If you are able to be a homeowner, you'll most likely live further away from where you work and not have as many trave

Why do we drive? - Unaffordable housing. If you are able to be a homeowner, you'll most likely live further away from where you work and not have as many travel options. Median individual income: $28k; Median house price: ~$600k. I personally think the market is inflated but I have no idea how or if it will crash. - Unaffordable rents. You find a great place to live, that you can afford, that might be rent control, and it doesn't make monetary sense to move elsewhere. Or you just can't afford to (like if you work in SM/Venice). - Geography. For example, look at The Valley. If you have to come into central LA, your options are pretty limited. If you wanted to use good public transit, there's an express bus and the stunted Red Line. Not much of the rest of the Valley is served. There are of course other reasons but I think these are main drivers. I think dedicated bus lanes could alleviate these issues but, when I asked someone at Metro about that, she skirted the issue by saying there are no plans to widen any streets in LA. Which I'm ok with - I'd prefer to see some of them reduced or reconfigured. It seems their focus is mainly on rail. Sadly, it's also still focused on a hub-and-spoke system pointing downtown instead of something more nodal around other job centers/geography. Tolls aren't going to help. They're only going to be another nickel or dime to help overwhelm the poor and middle class here. As someone else pointed out, it's not going to be an issue for Mr. Audi and Mrs. Land Rover to pay them, but when Jose and Juanita come over to cut their lawn and babysit their kid, they will suffer. And Jose and Juanita, and all the rest of us already suffer each time there's a new measure to increase sales tax to pay for public transit so that we can hopefully, maybe, one day have a decent, less dangerous, less stressful way to get around. I'm not super-familiar with all the consequences of Prop 13 but I'm assuming that because the city can't extract it's fair share of tax revenue from the housing stock that that is why everything is based on sales tax increases. At least Measure S was voted down yesterday.