Los Angeles can’t fix its broken metro because bureaucrats keep wasting your tax dollars on pie-in-the-sky projects. The city’s leaders focused on flashy trains to downtown while ignoring real people who need to get across sprawling neighborhoods. New York’s subway works because it connects actual communities – not just political pet projects.
Liberals pushed LA’s rail system as an environmental dream, but regular folks know better. Spending billions on empty trains while streets crumble shows where priorities lie. In New York, the subway moves millions daily because it serves the people, not activists’ fantasies.
The metro’s downtown-centric design treats Angelenos like cattle being herded into a cramped pen. Real Americans want freedom to travel anywhere without government planners dictating their routes. New York’s system grew organically to meet demand – not to push some urbanist agenda.
Safety? Women avoid LA’s metro after dark while politicians lecture about “public transit equity.” In New York, they’ve at least got cops patrolling stations instead of coddling criminals. Law-abiding citizens deserve protection, not empty “awareness campaigns” funded by their paychecks.
Every new metro project comes with endless delays and cost overruns – classic government incompetence. Private companies built New York’s original subway lines on time and under budget. Today’s union red tape and environmental reviews strangle progress while commuters suffer.
The “solution” is always more taxes and fewer lanes for drivers. LA’s commute times keep growing as lanes disappear for bike paths nobody uses. New Yorkers can at least rely on their subway – here, we’re stuck subsidizing empty trains and blocked freeways.
Woke planners keep pushing metro expansions to luxury condo areas instead of working-class neighborhoods. It’s another wealth transfer from middle America to coastal elites. New York’s subway serves all five boroughs – not just Manhattanites and their donor friends.
Until LA stops letting urban planners play SimCity with our lives, traffic will keep getting worse. Common sense says: fix the roads, cut the bureaucracy, and let Americans choose how to travel. The free market built this country – not some government train set.
