COLOR ME SKEPTICAL: L.A. To Become America’s Next Great Mass-Transit City. And bikes aren’t “transit” — or, if they are, then cars are transit too. On the other hand, this makes sense: “Something like a nine-minute wait for a bus, a 15-minute walk to your destination, or an afternoon bike ride are all more pleasant in Southern California than in a Boston winter or a sweltering Washington August. As a quirk of fate, the East Coast of the United States was settled first, so cities with large pre-automobile urban cores are clustered there. But the fundamentals of climate and terrain are more favorable to walking and transit in Los Angeles than in New York.”