Metro has added how many miles of freeway lanes since 2015? How much was spent on Sepulveda Pass? How much are the new express lanes supposed to cost? Every dollar Metro/Caltrans spends expanding highways takes away ridership from transit. Now we have way too much emphasis on zero-emission transit instead of mode shift while we continue to subsidize wasteful fossil-fuel and land-intensive automobile use.

There is a huge demand to live in more sustainable urban, walkable, transit served communities, but there is almost no effort to build them while we throw a tiny portion of our transportation dollars at a few transit projects that cost way more than they should while continuing to blindly believe that cars on highways should continue to be the dominant way to get around.

I have plenty of issues with riding on Metro, but the ridership issues are most certainly because we all pay a ridiculous amount of money to ensure that driving continues to be the most convenient way to get around.

None of this is going to end well unless there are some major changes in priorities, policies, and spending now.