Germany is half the size of Texas with 5 times as many people and a good public transportation system. Austin, TX, treehugger headquarters, can’t get people to ride the new $$$$$ rail transportation. What might work in Hamburg ain’t no way gonna work in Texas.
My first car was a ‘68 VW bus, bought while I was playing Army in Germany.
You can keep the trains, there or here.
The ONLY people in LA who take mass transit are the indigent, welfare peeps and all around bad scene people.
That’s just it; most of the major European metropolitan areas have long-established public transit, and generally speaking - having used various public transit schemes throughout Europe - I’d say it’s quite adequate. Personally, I liked the system in Tokyo; that’s probably my favorite.
Berlin, or Prague, or Warsaw, or Istanbul certainly isn’t Houston, or Los Angeles, or anywhere else for that matter. I’d have to say that NYC does it quite well, but then again, that’s a relatively small geographical area with high population density.
I know Portland, OR has been floundering for years with their light-rail scheme. It’s fine in the urban core of downtown, but that’s about it. TriMet’s insane dream of expanding the system to resemble something akin to the Berlin S-Bahn system is laughable at best, and ‘shroom-inspired lunacy at worst.