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i've lived in LA most of my life and i've spent considerable time in tokyo, and let me tell you, you start to appreciate the mass transit over there really fast. tolls for all the highways are mad expensive, there is no parking anywhere, and the streets are full of car, bicycle and pedestrian traffic. driving in japan isn't fun unless you get away from the city and out to the touge, or take the expressway in the middle of the night when it's actually flowing.
i'd love to see tokyo style mass transit in LA (but i'm sure they'd mess it up and make it like NYC), but no matter what this guy says it just ain't happening anytime soon. the detroit big 3 bought up light rail companies back in the day and eliminated them, and made deals with large cities to make them plan their communities around auto transportation. tokyo or nyc subways, trains and buses just don't work in LA, the city just isn't dense enough. you have to walk way too far from your house to the nearest bus station, and the distance from the bus station to the closest train station is way too far. in order to shorten that distance, you'd have to put stations and lines everywhere, but there would be far too few people using each of those stations to justify the cost because the population density just is not there. this guy's prediction may be right but it's gonna take multiple decades in LA.
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