Los Angeles drivers have accepted long delays in rush hour travel. Why does the rest of the country have to?

Question

In the morning in the Los Angeles area there is often fog in the hills the freeways were passed through. 30-50 miles inland there is still fog between the hills, and morning accidents and fog often close major freeways throughout the region. In the evening, the back ups are two-three hours standard for all but the shortest commutes. Why should other places adopt/accept this type of situation with or without the geographic problems. I myself don't have an extra 4 hours each day, not to mention non-commute travel.

Answer 1

This is perhaps the most poorly-worded question I have read in quite a while. But thanks for the two points.

Answer 2

LA is trying to address this problem by expanding its rail system and improving rapid transit bus service, but there is too much opposition from special interests, so it is very difficult.

Answer 3

There's an old saying: "if you don't like heat, stay out of the kitchen"

Just this month, I was traveling through New Mexico. There were hundreds and hundreds of miles of wide open spaces without traffic problems at all. Maybe you should move there.

Answer 4

They shouldn't.  There's a reason people flee the LA area for Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Oregon.  And there's a reason natives of those states have so much venom for California, particularly the LA area.  

If the rest of us wanted to put up with traffic like that, we'd live somewhere there's traffic like that.