Los Angeles once had America’s best transit system. Now, its Metro trains are slower than crawling through gridlocked traffic. The city’s leaders wasted decades pushing a subway system that doesn’t fit how real people live. Instead of fixing roads for hardworking drivers, they poured billions into a train network only tourists and bureaucrats use.
The root problem? Outdated liberal planning. LA copied New York’s subway model, forcing all rail lines to downtown. But LA isn’t a cramped island—it’s a sprawling freedom-loving megacity. Families live where they want, not stacked in apartments. Forcing everyone downtown for work or play is pure fantasy.
Experts admit the system’s design fails. Trains take longer than driving for 93% of trips. While New Yorkers cram into subways, Angelenos wisely choose cars. The Metro’s own former innovation chief says the solution is connecting neighborhoods directly. But that would require common sense, not government blueprints.
Building new rail today costs $1 billion per mile—a taxpayer rip-off. Environmental reviews take years, and unions demand bloated contracts. Meanwhile, LA’s streets decay. Real Americans need fixes now, not “solutions” that arrive in 2040. The Metro Board spends millions on art installations at stations while riders face homeless encampments and crime.
New York’s subway works because Manhattan traps people. LA celebrates space and mobility. The left hates this truth. They want us packed like rats, dependent on broken transit. But freedom means driving where you want, when you want—not waiting for late trains that smell like a meth lab.
The Metro’s latest expansion? A $30 billion boondoggle to connect Beverly Hills and UCLA. Regular folks won’t benefit. It’s a playground for consultants and politicians. Meanwhile, single moms sit in traffic because bus lanes were removed to make room for empty trains.
Conservatives know the answer: upgrade roads, not rails. Embrace ride-sharing and self-driving cars. Let neighborhoods—not DC bureaucrats—decide their transit needs. LA’s greatness came from entrepreneurship, not government trains.
The lesson is clear. Big government can’t force people into its utopian schemes. Real solutions come from American ingenuity, not copying failed models. Until LA stops worshipping New York’s concrete jungle, its Metro will keep burning cash while citizens burn gas.
