People took 278 million trips on an LA Metro bus in 2019, which is more ridership than on any bus or rail system in the United States outside of NYC. We also have the most light rail ridership in the country. (but who cares about that?) Our public transit gets a really bad rap. It is certainly not as good as NYC or Chicago or, probably, Seattle, but maybe you could use Houston as an example in the future.

Thanks! I will :)

Good thing LA is nicer than I used to think.

I probably will be very wrong, but some places in Europe are urbanised over vast areas (in a sense making "endless suburbs") and to my knowledge have descent public transportation, usually a combination of trains, metros, busses, tramways.

In places like London, to my limited knowledge public transport is the only valid choice for transportation, as car traffic is in constant jam, parking is impossible to find and costs a fortune.

Countries like Belgium and Netherlands are highly urbanised and from my experience it's the same story - you do not take a car to go to work (if you work in the city/downtown). People even have jobs that they have in different cities and they take express trains everyday.

I agree though that US's suburban and car-centric model, with endless cul-de-sacs is not designed to have public transport. To retrofit public transport into this - is a colossal task, though it's also an effort to change peoples minds, that not relying on a car is "an attack on freedom" and public transport is not only for poor people.