Originally Posted by UNITED959

L.A. is huge -- I mean it. And that's what makes a car so necessary -- there really isn't a true city center like London, NYC, Chicago, Hong Kong, etc. It's a collection of cities and neighborhoods all somehow covered by the name "Los Angeles."

Public transportation is horrible (it's really quite embarrassing, actually, given the importance of the city and being the second largest in the U.S.) -- although there are some train lines and buses.