I rip my hair out at this. I live close enough to Century City that I can generally walk to metro/santa monica/culver city lines if I can't take my car, but to

I rip my hair out at this. I live close enough to Century City that I can generally walk to metro/santa monica/culver city lines if I can't take my car, but to most places I want to go to it's horrid and ends up taking more time and costing more as well. The only time I have never regretted taking a bus is in the super early mornings when I have an entire bendy Metro Rapid bus to myself all the way downtown, or when I can take the commuter express...both usually to get to some destination near downtown. You need to live in very specific areas to benefit from existing public transit, and the inflexibility of the existing systems (and city sprawl) will not make you happy in those occasional situations you need to go to some kinda event that is way out of your way. Other than that, yes, maybe Metro itself is pretty awesome. Also, I have to mention that the flyaway service is awesome too, public transit from westwood to lax in the same time as a shuttle only paying 1/4 of the price? Yay! I wish car sharing were more popular in this area, but flexcar/zipcar sort of fucked us over in that aspect.