Oh my bad. I’m not from the Bay so I didn’t catch the joke. I was just referring to cars.

Fleets of autonomous cars would likely park in large lots on the outskirts or undeveloped areas of the city, like a bus or train yard.

I can’t imagine why “the leading progressive media brand exclusively serving collision repair shop owners” would publish a negative story about autonomous vehicles.

Transporting people is, historically, not profitable. Many big city rail systems were run privately a century ago until they went bankrupt and were demolished or taken over by the city.

Public transportation also does not reduce car congestion. Like profitability, this is a bad metric to judge a project. Every driver…

It is a regulation issue because (some) people are opposed to it. Typically it’s more conservative people who don’t like density (aka other people) so they fight new housing which could bring more people to their neighborhood (sometimes it’s very obviously race-based). They also tend to like driving and fear that if…

You won’t have to share, just as you don’t now. You can still call a private car, it’ll take you to work, and then it’ll go back out and pick other people up for the rest of the day (instead of sitting idle at your office).

You are ignoring all of the direct and indirect subsidies that governments pay to make driving and car ownership artificially cheap and convenient. 99% of car trips start and end with free parking. How do you think that happens?

Many people buy cars not because they particularly adore them or need them for their…

Are you sure government-mandated parking isn’t communist also?

Just because an individual can do it doesn’t mean that’s any way to run a city. “Just move” is not a policy solution. It is the logical equivalent of Trump’s wall. Build a wall around the city to effectively end the demand which drives up housing costs. The problem is even after that, you’ll still need to build more…

The city’s devastating affordability crisis has an unlikely villain—its famed progressive politics

Assume by what?

Again, nobody is forcing anyone. The vision held by many people who think about these things is that autonomous vehicles will make private car ownership obsolete naturally, without any prodding from the city. Many people will forgo the burdens of car ownership for a monthly or annual membership with Uber, which will…

“Take this mess on the Mission St corridor. $100K later, the SFMTA is backpedaling because they devastated the business and tax base in the neighborhood.”

That’s not what your links say. The Mission Street red lane has only been in place for two months (as of publication) which is far too early to evaluate for…

Who’s forcing? Let’s just stop subsidizing the least-efficient mode of transportation.

Or we could just stop requiring parking with every new development, since that only encourages people to drive and raises the cost of construction and operations. In cities with a housing shortage, why are we still mandating cheap housing for cars?

One of the projects that would be funded if Measure R2 passes in November would be an extension of the Crenshaw Line north into West Hollywood.

Yes, it covers every bus and train operated by Metro, but not the municipal transit services which are operated by individual cities (but many of them will accept the same TAP card, you just need to put their own specific fare on it).

I’m not trying to pick on you in particular, just letting everyone know that Metro didn’t eminent domain this train into existence. It owns most, if not all, of the rights-of-way from the old Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Electric Railways. Maybe a landlord or broker failed to mention that, or maybe they simply…

That one is under construction. As a subway, it’s taking longer to build than Expo,which is mostly at- or above-grade. And unfortunately, the Subway to the Sea (Purple Line) won’t currently reach the beach as currently planned and funded. It’ll get you to just about the border of West Los Angeles and Santa Monica,…

It’s a relic from before regional transit in Los Angeles was planned by a single entity.