One of the big factors working against public transit in SoCal is that there is nothing resembling a downtown where everyone heads off to work.
We are headed in a thousand different directions from a vast sprawl of suburbs. It’s a region that developed with the car and the freeway.
And as DoughtyOne mentioned the buses that do operate are largely a transportation system built for illegal aliens, not that plenty of them don’t drive their own unregistered cars.
Yes you’re right.
I agree with your thoughts on it too.