looks like L.A. in 2035 will be awesome, something to look forward to when I'm 55....
click on above map to see a closer look at the new metro lines.

courtesy of www.sfcityscape.com
( a San Francisco bay area transit site)

Los Angeles 2035

For all its car culture, the Bay Area's southern cousin has a large and growing rail and rapid bus system. Los Angeles transit maps tend to be of two varieties: the stylish official maps produced by Metro Design Studio and CHK (this map borrows heavily from Metro's project maps), and fantasy maps (there's also this map, the original version of which we developed, for an ambitious but serious citizen proposal). The map below portrays what the L.A. system should look like in 25 years, based on the Measure R tax plan approved by voters in the 2008 election (note that it does not includes two projects that haven't yet been defined, in the 405 corridor over Sepulveda Pass and along the Santa Ana Branch right-of-way). The map also suggests a design direction we believe Metro ought to consider: while geographic accuracy over such a vast scale (this maps covers roughly 2,000 square miles) requires design compromises, Tube-style maps only make sense where systems are so complex as to require radical simplification, and where the mental maps of most residents aren't more or less built around the road network. So how about a hybrid, like in Washington?