Part of a series of stories produced in collaboration with Youth Radio on the changing car culture in America.
You might think there's one place in America you absolutely need a car: Los Angeles. You'd be wrong.
"I have been in L.A. without a car for two years now," says Alyssa Rosenthal, a makeup artist.
Rosenthal's job means lugging a professional makeup kit — think of a small toolbox filled with enough supplies to make a supermodel or a zombie (or a zombie supermodel). Point being: It's heavy, and it's her responsibility to get it to the movie set.
"It's not easy. It's definitely a big challenge, but I make it happen," Rosenthal says. "Public transit really is blowing up in L.A. right now. The trains go a lot of places, and it makes it sometimes easier to get to locations with traffic and everything in L.A."
That "blowing up" Rosenthal refers to is new transit options like the Metro Expo Line, which opened last year. It's already surpassing rider projections.
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