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RockRam
Years ago I was an Urban Studies major at Cal Northridge and got some insight into mass transit feasability.
Forget any meaningful mass transit for the foreseeable future. There will likely be some dribs and drabs and dramatic proposals but nothing cohesive or rational.
The area is not suitable for it.
Not enough density.
Way too spread out.
No viable system exists to get people from stations to work or home.
No regional planning was done nor will be possible to a sufficient extent without changes to the laws when it comes to zoning areas for commerce versus housing and then getting business and people to relocate.
No real enthusiasm for it except for a handful of mass transit agenda folks and many low income folks (how's the $100 billion bullet train to nowhere doing?).
SoCal was entirely designed for car transportation and urban sprawl was also designed in from the beggining of its growth.
The only way mass transit begins to happen in any meaningful way is if low income areas near LA center are put under eminent domain, and revitalized into heavy density residential and office. However the political environment and the critical housing shortage makes that currently unlikely.
Bottom line: other than some shuttle bus to some off campus parking lot I wouldn't hold my breath. For that OR new Freeway capacity. By that time, Jared Goff will be a grandfather.
