Excellent interview on the Smart Cities Insider blog with former LA Metro Transportation Planning Manager Tim Papandreou, now Director of Strategic Planning and Policy at Muni in San Francisco. He says Metro has done a better job of unifying the transit network with one brand and one transit pass, in being innovative with its fare policy, Metro Rapid, passing sales taxes to create a strong funding base, and check this: About Metro's brand he says: "It's a very happy and upbeat brand . . . It says 'Try transit, it's fun, you're cool, [transit is] sexy.' LA Metro looks and feels like the Apple of transit." But San Francisco wins, he says, in terms of bikes, parking, TOD, pedestrian safety, shared mobility and overall transit network coverage: "There are only a few places in [San Francisco]," he says, "where you are more than a couple of blocks away from the transit network, and [transit is] also more frequent than in Los Angeles." Read it.