Billions spent, but fewer people are using public transportation in Southern California | Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

January 27, 2016

A busy street with the metro rail passing over head. — Metro plans to spend more than $12 billion over the next 10 years to build two new rail lines and three extensions, the largest capital investment of any transit agency in the country. Photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times.

In a recent LA Times article concerning LA Metro bus ridership, Brian Taylor of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ department of Urban Planning underscores the importance of investing in the bus routes which carry the most riders.