"We don't know how it's going to play out," he says of ride sharing. "Our goal ultimately needs to be to get less people. We have to drive less." But even with that goal, LA is making this like heroic effort to build train lines and add more innovative kinds of buses,. It feels like a relatively progressive activist city in terms of we're trying to add transit. And yet transit fell, transit ridership fell last year, which shocked me because in the last year I stopped driving and started taking the bus personally.