Americans hate transit because of the last mile problem. You know exactly how close my house is to light rail. I can walk there, take a bus to the train station and be downtown in about 45 minutes for around $4 round trip. I did exactly that to see lil down in the International district. But if I needed to get further than that? It starts sucking.

There's a parts house downtown that I could stand to visit more often. In order to find parking my best bet is to wander into Target three blocks away, buy $15 worth of shit I don't need, then walk to the parts house, get what I came for, go back to Target and head home. OR I could walk down to the bus terminal, ride into the international district and walk another mile and a half. Or? I could spend an hour and a half on a bus each way, also an option. Because the bus from the International District to the Pike Place Market does not exist. So instead I pay $7 shipping from a place I can hit by car in 20 minutes.

When I was in North Hollywood? I was a 10-minute walk to the Red Line, a 10-minute ride to Hollywood & Vine and a 10-minute walk to the Arclight. That made the Arclight pretty approachable. But public transit to LAX? three and a half hours. It was much better from Cypress Park - I was a 20 minute walk, a 20 minute ride and then hurry and catch that shuttle I have tickets for for a total of around 75,80 minutes. But the Arclight? two and a half hours.