The situation with mass transit in the Valley really sucks. I would gladly use any public transit available to commute to work - this way I also could use transit time for reading or doing something instead of staring into the sea of taillights for an hour every day. But instead my family has 3 cars - because this is the only way one can get anywhere. Local governments change quite hefty taxes - both state tax and sales tax and property taxes are AFAIK among the highest everywhere - but I don't see any return for this money, the service that I would gladly want to use every day is just not available for me. Most routes either don't go to proper locations or are too rare to to use, or require 3 hour commute with 2 transfers for the route that I do in 20 minutes by car. Maybe my case is unique, but it looks like everybody I talked to about it here feels pretty much the same - would be glad to use public transit but you can't get anywhere with it, at least not if when you get there has any importance for you.