[vinay427]

The majority may want a few projects that cost relatively little, but they clearly don't want as much as people in other cities that spend more on public transit and have more public transit infrastructure per capita. In other words, I'm sure the majority is in favor of some public transit as an alternative, but the bar is far lower for being an alternative.

Also, it goes without saying that LA County is not representative of "California culture."

[zjaffee]

Measure M is a 120 billion dollar measure, one of the largest regional transit initiatives ever in the history of the united states. The only real problem with it is that LA has to rework itself around transit oriented development for both residential and office space for it to really work.