The next plan is the under construction Expo Line, which will eventually go to Santa Monica along a route that roughly parallels the Santa Monica Freeway, but more specifically, an abandoned rail corridor parallel to Exposition Blvd, which was another former Pacific Electric line.
Wilshire certainly deserves something. On a Saturday evening (around 9PM), a articulated 720 Rapid bus passed us at Westwood with doors closed.
As Toronto is the second or third fastest growing Metro in the US and Canada (behind Las Vegas and Pheonix, two sprawlholes), it is certainly like LA in its mass and era of rapid growth. The mistake is that we rested on our laurels for too long, then elected two incompetant, then one destructive provincial governments and ambivalent federal governments.
I've gotta finish my post on transportation in California.