Where have you been?

Dispite America's love affair with the automobile (LA's especially) there have been attempts to make LA a public transportation city. Here you can see a schematic of the commuter train system. If you live along one of the train routes then I am sure it is supper convenient. Unfortunately enough people cling to their cars (like others cling to their gods and guns) and the system's overall development has been slow. People are more interested in building more Diamond lanes (lanes on freeways which are reserved for cars with more than one person in them) than a functional bus/train system. Someday, when petrol cost about twenty dollars a gallon, people might get interested...